Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Chattanooga, Tennessee

81
foundations with a Chattanooga address
$150.2M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
31
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 81 foundations that gave a Chattanooga, Tennessee address on their tax filing — 73 private foundations and 8 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $150.2 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 31 of them (38%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Chattanooga foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 81 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 6 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Maclellan Foundation Inc$9,500$21.5M$50–$4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Benwood Foundation Inc$20,000$7.9M$1,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lyndhurst Foundation Inc$15,500$7M$30–$750,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc$8,000$3.8M$306–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda$50,000$3M$1,000–$350,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kennedy Foundation Inc$20,000$2.3M$3,000–$1.6MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc$10,000$1.4M$500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation$900,000$900,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lillian L Colby Charitable Foundation Ia$25,000$400,000$7,500–$60,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Pattee Foundation Inc$10,000$338,538$250–$85,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation$2,000$280,000$500–$27,350FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust$1,000$243,850$200–$165,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Just One More Foundation$5,000$232,919$125–$20,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kenneth E Boring$5,000$232,350$750–$95,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Chrysalis Foundation$15,000$216,700$250–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
In Him Resources Foundation$2,500$213,500$1,500–$29,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell$1,000$168,504$150–$67,504FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Oehmig Foundation$5,000$113,600$250–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Day Family Foundation Inc$50,000$100,000$30,000–$80,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ron Hart Foundation Inc$1,000$82,341$150–$12,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gail C Link Education Trust$3,000$66,000$3,000–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cheryl L Vaughn Foundation Inc$2,500$54,955$255–$34,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Hand Foundation Inc$1,000$45,000$100–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fulcrum Foundations$4,000$30,520$1,000–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Smartbank Foundation$10,000$30,000$1,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.