· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HEARTLAND HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| WINNER'S CLUB OF CALHOUN | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clarence E Harris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clarence E Harris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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