· Private foundation
The C Scott & Muriel S Mayfield Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCMINN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MCMINN COUNTY LIVING HERITAGE MUSEUM | $12,250 |
| ATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| MCMINN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $8,000 |
| LETS READ 20 | $5,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TN | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MCMINN & MEIGS COUNTIES | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +156%
- MCMCMINN COUNTY LIVING HERITAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +101%
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- KMKEITH MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHUCHone grant, 2021 · $4k
- NANEW ATTITUDE INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MCMCMINN CENTRAL FFAone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
Operation of a library for the general public.
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
To present and promote the historical aspect of the local river from pre-history until the present day
Advocacy for abused and neglected children
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center, Inc. will provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse, severely neglected children and children who have witnessed a violent crime. The Center will work every day to try and stop…
To advocate for safe, permanent, and nuturing homes for abused and neglected children by providing specially selected and trained community volunteers.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MCMINN COUNTY LIVING HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MCMINN AND MEIGS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT THE WELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MCMINN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ATTITUDE 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.
Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The C Scott & Muriel S Mayfield Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The C Scott & Muriel S Mayfield Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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