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Clarke Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOY SCOUNTS OF AMERICA | $27,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $8,500 |
| FEEDING MY SHEEP | $5,000 |
| MORRISON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BARTER THEATRE | $3,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HEALING HANDS | $2,500 |
| CROSS ROADS MEDICAL MISSION | $2,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $520) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MMMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +60%
- BSBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah6× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +18%
- BOBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC5× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BGBILLY GRAHM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- FMFORT MYERS TEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- HEHIGHLANDS EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Doe River Gorge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SULLINS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Bristol Tennessee City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure ↗
- Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The United Company Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · The McGlothlin Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Eastman Credit Union · Wellmont Health System · The Horizon Foundation Inc · Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Bella Vista Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clarke Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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