· Public charity
H G Clay Foundation
To enhance the quality of life for the marginalized of the world by providing grants and scholarships in partnership with organizations who focus on: education, refugee resettlement, organizations working to decrease human trafficking, and international missions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $348,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $435,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| CITY HOPE | $32,000 |
| NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES | $22,000 |
| ROLLING FOR HOPE | $20,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $14,000 |
| TRINITY ON THE BORDER | $14,000 |
| DWELL MOBILE | $14,000 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| WHALEY RANCH | $10,000 |
| BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY | $9,000 |
| KONBIT HAITI | $9,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- DMDWELL MOBILE4× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +425% · 36% of their budget
- SBSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL3× · 2022–2024 · $134k · revenue +27%
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $75k
- WCWOMENS CARE MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +45%
- ROROADS OF HOPEone grant, 2021 · $31k
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.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
Provides Maternity Care, Housing, Parenting, Life Skills Classes, and wellness services, including counseling to expectant mothers who have chosen life over abortion.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
City Changers strives to reach the impoverished community with the love of Jesus Christ by offering community and religious services.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Provide state of the art water filters into the hands of mothers and train them to provide clean water for themselves , their families and others in their communities.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is Circle City Villages. 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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 53 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 DWELL MOBILE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds City Hope ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Under His Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds Konbit Haiti ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CITY VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds FIVE STONES GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands Global Inc ↗
- Who funds Da Vinci Schools ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
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: Mapp Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · Malbis Memorial Foundation · Snook Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Lillian C McGowin 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 H G Clay 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.
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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