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The McLeroy Foundation at a glance

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The McLeroy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$265kYouth Development$174kEducation$126kCrime & Legal$28kHousing & Shelter$21kInternational$10kHealth$7kEmployment$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TN ALLIANCE FOR KIDS$10,000
CROSSROADS CAMPUS$10,000
MONROE HARDINGRSI$7,034
DREAM AND WISHES OF TN$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 7%YOUTH TRANSITIONS INC: $4k → 12%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $4k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $3k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $3k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $3k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $2k → 14%STRONGER THAN MY FATHER: $15k → 14%STRONGER THAN MY FATHER: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $36k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $23k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE: $7k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 15 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$562k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

53%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterEducationCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +27%
  • MH
    MONROE HARDING INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +11%
  • FS
    FIRST STEPS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MH
    MONROE HARDINGGED INCENTIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • GI
    GED INCENTIVE STARS
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
2
A Friends House Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Fulfillment House Inc
Health
4
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Youth Homes

The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.

Human Services
6
Human Services Network Dba Youth Services Network Inc

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…

Health
7
Family Tree Inc

Housing counseling

Human Services
8
Strive Youth and Family Services Inc

Strive youth and family services provides housing and 24/7 care for kids with autism and cognitive disabilities in the foster care system

Health
9
Youth Home Inc

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…

Health
10
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
11
Choose to Win Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing Services

Housing & Shelter
12
Lighting the Way Transition House

Counseling service

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Encouragement Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TN ALLIANCE FOR KIDS: $84,750 · OtherTN ALLIANCE FOR KIDSMONROE HARDINGRSI FOSTER CARE: $65,000 · OtherMONROE HARDINGRSI FOSTER CAREMONROE HARDING INC: $54,534 · OtherMONROE HARDING INCAGAPE: $44,850 · OtherAGAPEMONROE HARDINGHS GRAD INVENTIVE: $26,200 · OtherMONROE HARDINGHS GRAD INVENTIVEMONROE HARDINGGED INCENTIVE: $25,500 · OtherMONROE HARDINGGED INCENTIVEMONROE HARDING INCHS GRAD INCENTIVE: $18,850 · OtherOASIS CENTERTN YOUTH ADVISORY COUNC: $16,250 · OtherFAMILY CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $12,500 · Other+14 more: $20,419 · Other+14 moreTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $85,500 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUSTUCKER'S HOUSE: $29,000 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSEYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCSTRONGER THAN MY FATHER: $18,015 · Human ServicesSTRONGER THAN MY FATHERFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $6,500 · Human Services+4 more: $7,900 · Human ServicesFIRST STEPS INC: $48,000 · EducationCASA INC: $27,500 · Civil RightsYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC: $11,250 · Youth DevelopmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionJonathans Path Inc: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$368,853Human Services$166,415Education$48,000Civil Rights$27,500Youth Development$11,250Religion$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $85,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC: $54,534 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST STEPS INC: $48,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE: $29,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCASA INC: $27,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONGER THAN MY FATHER: $18,015 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC: $11,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJonathans Path Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUTH TRANSITION INC: $4,400 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Nashville Predators F…T & T Family Foundati…The Steven & Laurie E…United Way of Middle …The Community Foundat…Louie M & Betty M Phi…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Frist Foundation
Memorial Foundation IncTN21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McLeroy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McLeroy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The McLeroy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McLeroy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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