· Private foundation
The McLeroy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TN ALLIANCE FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS CAMPUS | $10,000 |
| MONROE HARDINGRSI | $7,034 |
| DREAM AND WISHES OF TN | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- TCTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS6× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +27%
- MHMONROE HARDING INC4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +11%
- FSFIRST STEPS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- MHMONROE HARDINGGED INCENTIVEone grant, 2024 · $26k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- GIGED INCENTIVE STARSone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
A friends house believes that all children warrant a loving, caring, and safe environment, no matter what circumstances they have encountered in life. the mission is to provide a home that addresses the physical and emotional needs of the…
Jackson street youth services provides safe, secure shelter and related services to youth, ages 10 to 24, who are homeless or experiencing a personal or family crisis. the organization operates a 24-hour phone help line, provides emergency…
The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.
Our missions is to restore youth to lives of purpose, meaning and opportunity. human services network, dba youth services network (ysn), was founded in 1985. ysn operates three (3) community-based homes that serve boys from throughout los…
Housing counseling
Strive youth and family services provides housing and 24/7 care for kids with autism and cognitive disabilities in the foster care system
To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…
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…
Transitional Housing Services
Counseling service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Encouragement Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGER THAN MY FATHER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Jonathans Path Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARS INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist 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 McLeroy 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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