How much does Clarke Charitable Foundation give?

Clarke Charitable Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $144,870 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Clarke Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Youth Development (26%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Clarke Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mountain Mission School Inc ($115k), United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc ($47k), Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ($28k).

Does Clarke Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Clarke Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Clarke Charitable Foundation based?

Clarke Charitable Foundation is based in TN.

Clarke Charitable Foundation

Clarke Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Clarke Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Clarke Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Company Foundation, The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation, The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$27k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$190kYouth Development$176kArts & Culture$60kPhilanthropy$52kHuman Services$49kHealth$41kFood & Nutrition$23kEnvironment$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $48k
$10k–50k5 grants · $97k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$305k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY	$5,000
MORRISON SCHOOL	$5,000
FEEDING MY SHEEP	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$622k · 69 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$622k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+34%

Still filing today

65%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MM
MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +60%
BS
Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah
6× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +18%
BO
BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +44%

Funded once

BG
BILLY GRAHM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2018 · $5k
AS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $3k
TV
The Viking Booster Clubgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +448%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Wellmont Health System

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.

Health

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

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.

Health

Fort Loudoun Medical Center

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.

Health

American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

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…

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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission On Colleges Inc

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…

Education

Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health

Charleston Southern University

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…

Education

Claiborne Medical Center

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.

Health

University of Lynchburg

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…

Education

Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

53/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$400,495Education$153,400Youth Development$37,150Arts & Culture$29,300Religion$23,150Food & Nutrition$21,800Health$20,025

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The United Company FoundationVA45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clarke Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarke Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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