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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.

$436k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$500kEducation$445kReligion$388kYouth Development$164kInternational$145kHealth$130kRecreation & Sports$95kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $348,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $435,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $87,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$9,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRINITY ON THE BORDER$14,000
DWELL MOBILE$14,000
VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS$14,000
WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK$10,000
WHALEY RANCH$10,000
BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH ALABAMA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
KONBIT HAITI$9,000
ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES$9,000
BALDWIN COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DWELL MOBILE: $67k → 19%DWELL MOBILE: $47k → 19%DWELL MOBILE: $21k → 19%DWELL MOBILE: $14k → 19%DWELL MOBILE: $6k → 19%UNDER HIS WINGS: $20k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $13k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $10k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $9k → 12%CITY HOPE: $34k → 12%CITY HOPE: $32k → 12%CITY HOPE: $30k → 12%CITY HOPE: $27k → 12%CITY HOPE: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$1.5M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+28%

Still filing today

68%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • DM
    DWELL MOBILE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +425% · 36% of their budget
  • SB
    SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $134k · revenue +27%
  • VH
    Victory Health Partners Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • WC
    WOMENS CARE MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • RO
    ROADS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
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.

1
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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2
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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3
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
4
Kingdom Ministries

Provides Maternity Care, Housing, Parenting, Life Skills Classes, and wellness services, including counseling to expectant mothers who have chosen life over abortion.

Youth Development
5
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
6
Cci City Changers International

City Changers strives to reach the impoverished community with the love of Jesus Christ by offering community and religious services.

Religion
7
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
8
Covenant Care Services Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Water By Women

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.

Human Services
10
Challenge Ministries Us

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.

International
11
Global Mobilization Ministries Inc

To support christian ministries throughout the world

Religion
12
Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY ON THE BORDER: $134,000 · OtherTRINITY ON THE BORDERCHURCH OF THE APOSTLES: $112,500 · OtherCHURCH OF THE APOSTLESSEEDS - DAPHNE'S EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $112,000 · OtherSEEDS - DAPHNE'S EDUCATION FOUNDATIONRUFF WILSON YOUTH CENTER: $104,000 · OtherRUFF WILSON YOUTH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · OtherNORTHWEST UNIVERSITYBALDWIN COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $43,000 · Other+31 more: $603,800 · Other+31 moreDWELL MOBILE: $154,700 · Human ServicesDWELL MOBILECity Hope: $132,500 · Human ServicesCity HopeUnder His Wings Inc: $52,000 · Human ServicesUnder His Wings IncCAMILLE PLACE: $29,000 · Human ServicesCAMILLE PLACESOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $134,000 · EducationSOUTH BALDW…BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $54,000 · EducationBALDWIN COU…Da Vinci Schools: $20,000 · EducationDa Vinci Sc…Community Bible Study: $25,100 · ReligionHealing Hands Global Inc: $25,000 · ReligionTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $19,000 · ReligionCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $6,000 · ReligionVictory Health Partners Inc: $65,500 · HealthKonbit Haiti: $44,000 · InternationalONECHILD GLOBAL: $10,000 · InternationalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,254,300Human Services$368,200Education$208,000Religion$75,100Health$65,500International$54,000Youth Development$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDWELL MOBILE: $154,700 over 4y, 36% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $134,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCity Hope: $132,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $65,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $54,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUnder His Wings Inc: $52,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetKonbit Haiti: $44,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWOMENS CARE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCIRCLE CITY VILLAGES: $30,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMILLE PLACE: $29,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFIVE STONES GLOBAL: $29,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetBALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $25,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealing Hands Global Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDa Vinci Schools: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcumenical Ministries Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $19,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetONECHILD GLOBAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 CIRCLE CITY VILLAGES ↗
  • Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMILLE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FIVE STONES GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
  • Who funds Healing Hands Global Inc ↗
  • Who funds Da Vinci Schools ↗
  • Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗

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.

Mapp Family FoundationAL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 H G Clay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H G Clay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to H G Clay Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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