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The Clayton Homes 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.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Housing & Shelter$6.9MEnvironment$2.4MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$1.0MArts & Culture$876kYouth Development$656kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Promise$1,815,000
Operation Hope Inc$815,000
Next Step Network Inc$300,000
United Way of Blount County$275,938
Helen Ross McNabb Foundation$203,750
Tennessee SCORE$200,000
Neighborworks America$200,000
Interfaith Health Clinic$170,000
Zoo Knoxville$165,000
Knox Education Foundation$152,500
Muse Knoxville$128,725
New Hope Capital Campaign$110,000
American Red Cross$110,000
Clayton Bradley Academy$103,000
FISH Hospitality Pantries$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Operation Triage: $5k → 10%Children's Village Inc: $2k → 16%Tennessee Kids Belong: $25k → 4%ST JOSEPHS VILLA: $1k → 9%CITY OF REFUGE PULASKI: $360 → 14%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $1k → 20%Operation Triage: $5k → 10%Children's Village: $2k → 16%TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG: $25k → 4%Tennessee Kids Belong: $25k → 4%YWCA Knoxville: $60k → 12%YWCA Knoxville Foundation: $50k → 12%A Place to Stay: $3k → 10%Blount County Community Action Agency: $5k → 10%Haven House: $11k → 10%Haven House: $9k → 10%Senior Citizens Home Assistance Service Inc: $15k → 12%Harmony Family Center: $3k → 12%Good Neighbors of Blount County: $1k → 10%Knoxville Area Urban League: $25k → 12%Knoxville Area Urban League: $15k → 12%Knoxville Area Urban League: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 87 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

87 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
83

Total granted

$14M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $951k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +4%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +63%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.4M · revenue +18%
  • RH
    RV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +106% · 32% of their budget
  • KE
    Knoxville Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Knox Housing Partnership Inc

To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…

Housing & Shelter
2
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
4
Housing Hub

Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley Inc

Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.

Animals
7
Habitat for Humanity of Knox County

To build and rehabilitate affordable housing to families who cannot afford commercial mortgages using donated supplies, volunteer labor, contributed funds and properties. The constructed homes are sold to pre-selected families at a value…

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8
Holston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put Gods love into action, Holston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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9
Empower Tennessee

To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
10
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

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11
Knoxville Academy of Medicine Foundation

To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.

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12
Street Hope Tn

Street hope tn is a faith-based non-profit with a mission to eliminate sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and provide a safe environment to foster healing and hope through jesus christ. this mission is fulfilled through…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Empower At Valley Dream Farm Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Construc…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsSenior Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr13%27%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr24%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr11%45%35–55yr24%16%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/131
the rest of the field
13%
4,624/36,269

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.

04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 206 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/123
Grantees still filing
77/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE — $3,145,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLEFAMILY PROMISE INC — $1,430,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE INCNEXT STEP NETWORK INC — $1,205,000 · Housing & ShelterNEXT STEP NETWORK INC+5 more — $311,700 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE INC — $1,216,422 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INCNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $500,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORAT…Zoo Knoxville — $335,000 · OtherZoo KnoxvilleClayton Bradley Academy — $303,000 · OtherFAMILY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Other+143 more — $3,185,172 · Other+143 moreNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $2,356,670 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR…+1 more — $20,000 · EnvironmentKNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $677,500 · EducationTNACHIEVES — $340,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $200,000 · EducationINNOVATIVE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 · Education+5 more — $97,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY — $1,251,388 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $54,300 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSE KNOXVILLE — $383,725 · Arts & CultureRV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureKnoxville Childrens Theatre Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $44,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $38,500 · Arts & CultureHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $301,250 · HealthINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $185,000 · HealthSUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC — $55,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 · HealthThe Mend House Sober Living Community — $50,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $40,000 · HealthEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 · Health+11 more — $89,040 · Health
Housing & Shelter$6,091,700Other$5,739,594Environment$2,376,670Education$1,415,000Philanthropy$1,355,688Arts & Culture$841,225Health$805,290

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE — $3,145,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $2,356,670 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $1,430,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY — $1,251,388 over 4y, 16% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC — $1,216,422 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEXT STEP NETWORK INC — $1,205,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetKNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $677,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSE KNOXVILLE — $383,725 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTNACHIEVES — $340,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $301,250 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetRV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFAMILY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $185,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER — $120,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $112,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO — $103,700 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetWILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGIRL TALK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetINNOVATIVE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INC — $85,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKnoxville Childrens Theatre Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC — $75,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $68,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST — $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR BETTER HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetYWCA KNOXVILLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mend House Sober Living Community — $50,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL — $46,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC — $45,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $44,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY — $30,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetKNOXVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMorristown-Hamblen Hospital Foundation — $25,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budget
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.

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.

East Tennessee Founda…Haslam Family Foundat…The Boyd FoundationBill and Crissy Hasla…United Way of Greater…Stowers Machinery Fou…Lawson Family Foundat…The Clayton Family Fo…Trinity Health Founda…Akima Club IncGene & Florence Monda…Thompson Charitable F…
East Tennessee FoundationTN72.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Boyd Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Akima Club Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Thompson Charitable 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 The Clayton Homes 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Clayton Homes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clayton Homes 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 206 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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