Tennessee · Private foundation
The McLeroy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations The McLeroy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $28k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $248k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $63k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $52k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $45k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $62k | 10% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossroads Campus | $85,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Monroe Harding Inc | $54,534 | 4 | 1% |
| First Steps Inc | $48,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tucker's House | $29,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Casa Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Stronger Than My Father | $18,015 | 2 | 5% |
| Youth Encouragement Services Inc | $11,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family & Children's Service | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossroads Campus | $85,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Monroe Harding Inc | $54,534 | 4 | 1% |
| First Steps Inc | $48,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tucker's House | $29,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Casa Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Stronger Than My Father | $18,015 | 2 | 5% |
| Youth Encouragement Services Inc | $11,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family & Children's Service | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jonathans Path Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Youth Transition Inc | $4,400 | 1 | 5% |
| Backfield in Motion | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bridge House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stars Inc | $700 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $523 | 1 | n/a |
| Isaiah 117 House | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McLeroy Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The McLeroy Foundation
- How much does The McLeroy Foundation give?
- The McLeroy Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $27,534 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The McLeroy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Youth Development (27%), Education (20%).
- Who are The McLeroy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Crossroads Campus ($86k), Monroe Harding Inc ($55k), First Steps Inc ($48k).
- Does The McLeroy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McLeroy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The McLeroy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Joe C Davis Foundation.
- Where is The McLeroy Foundation based?
- The McLeroy Foundation is based in TN.
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