· Private foundation
The Clarence E Harris Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISKIN FOUNDATION | $440,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $140,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $115,000 |
| ERLANGER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $95,000 |
| CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL | $77,500 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| NORTHWEST GA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $52,500 |
| CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN TOP BOYS HOME | $50,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC | $45,000 |
| WINNER'S CLUB OF CALHOUN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- CGCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY4× · 2017–2023 · $355k · revenue +66%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC3× · 2019–2023 · $235k · revenue +68%
- MTMOUNTAIN TOP BOYS HOME INC5× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CCCALHOUN CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CFCONTRIBUTIONS FROM K-1 PASSTHROUGH - ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERSone grant, 2021 · $3
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.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
Improve health conditions and battle chronic, behavior-related diseases in tennessee.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue League of Nw Georgia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GORDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINNER'S CLUB OF CALHOUN INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NW GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ALLEO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris · The Howard Fund · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · Southern Health Plan Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc
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 The Clarence E Harris 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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