We Empower Christian Generosity.

At the heart of our work here at TGT, we guide and encourage donors

who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. Our mission

is carried out through four primary initiatives:

Donor-Advised Funds

Providing Donor-Advised Funds (DAFS), we help make generosity simple. DAFS offer an uncomplicated, flexible, and tax advantageous way to give to your favorite non-profits and ministries. Streamline your charitable giving by opening a fund at The Generosity Trust. Our most popular fund, the Giving Fund, has no fee or minimum. It’s like having your own charitable foundation without any of the hassles or costs. And, to make things even better, we do almost all the work!

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Multi-Generational Generosity

Inspiring and encouraging generosity within families is a privilege we have at The Generosity Trust. Building genuine trust – which happens over time – is the first step, as family members share their dreams and passions with one another. We see it as a great privilege to guide families, in harmony and unity, along their journey toward greater generosity.

Center of Connection, Education, and Community

Fostering generosity by understanding the hearts and passions of our donors is at the core of what we do. Once we know the hearts of our donors, we connect them and their families to mission-aligning ministries and non-profits – directing their generosity to specific community needs. Together with our donors, we are pressing into the opportunities God is putting in front of us.

Center of Service for the Benefit of Greater Chattanooga

Serving the Chattanooga area as a leader, convener, and catalyst of the faith-based community is important to us. To do that, we identify critical needs, then work with kingdom-building organizations to meet those needs. Wherever collaborative efforts are taking place for the good of our city, we will ask ourselves how we can help and get involved.

Our Signature Programs

Scholarships

Offering scholarships to advance educational opportunities for those who call Chattanooga home, we support current and aspiring ministry workers as they continue their studies.

The Dora Maclellan Brown Scholarship is for seminary students seeking a master’s degree in any type of ministry.
The Timothy Scholarship Program helps the children and grandchildren of Chattanooga area pastors/ministry leaders receive a post-high school education. These scholarships are also available to anyone from Chattanooga studying for ministry at the post-high school level.
Elevate Scholarship meets the needs of ministry leaders who seek to take continuing education and/or classes to assist them in their selected field of ministry.

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Alpha Fund

The Alpha Fund was created by The Generosity Trust as an incubator for worthy new local Christian ministries and projects that have not yet received their IRS Determination letter as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt entity.

For up to three-years, a new ministry to may come under the TGT umbrella as an Alpha Fund to:

Raise start-up funds and grow to a point where they are self-sustaining and no longer require the assistance of the Fund.
Receive gifts for qualified ministries, offering a tax deduction to their donors.
Disburse monies to the new initiatives.

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Giving Circles

Partnering with community members who give with others for greater impact, The Generosity Trust hosts four unique giving circles:  

Sharing God’s Goodness – Supporting small local ministries serving African Americans
Stepping into Generosity – Women Supporting Women
Unidos en Compasión – Serving local Latino communities
Young Givers – Inspiring whole-life generosity

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Impact of Our Work

An eleven-year-old’s generosity

May 30, 2024 | Generosity

You probably don’t know NoraJean Worland. She doesn’t own a business. She doesn’t sit on any boards. You won’t find her at Public House or Old Gilman Grill during the lunch hour. She’s in grade school, and she’s awesome.

Considerations on the Transfer of Donor-Advised Funds

Apr 23, 2024 | Funds, Generosity

If you’ve already gifted a large amount of money to your Big House DAF and now lack the freedom to give where your heart desires, The Generosity Trust has a simple 2 step process that can help.

2023 By the Numbers

Mar 20, 2024 | Generosity

It is a privilege to facilitate the generosity of our donors who have granted $33.8 M in 2023 to the organizations they care about most. We are pleased to share our 2023 Impact with you.

A Legacy of Giving

The legacy of our founder, Dora Maclellan Brown remains central to our work more than 50 years later: to empower Christians to increase their generosity toward Christian ministries and other worthy causes.

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Stories of Giving

“Giving through our Donor-Advised Fund with The Generosity Trust has freed us up in so many ways. We make our gifts monthly in the fund, schedule our grants out to our church and other causes – Christian and secular alike – that we want to support, and TGT does the rest. We get a consolidated giving statement at the end of the year, showing the gifts we put into the fund that count for income tax purposes. We don’t have to keep up with all the checks, receipts, and bank statements to demonstrate our giving. TGT does all that and makes it so easy to develop a proactive plan for our giving.”