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Charles and Shirlene Clark Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Human Services$47kYouth Development$36kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$16kAnimals$4kRecreation & Sports$3k
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,931
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LODI BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$15,931
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 12%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%WOW - WORLDS OF WONDER INC: $10k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 12%GOSPEL CENTER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY OF HOPE CHILDRENS CRISIS SERVICES: $2k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 12%LODI BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $16k → 12%LODI HOUSE: $10k → 12%MICKE GROVE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 12%PEOPLE ASSISTING LODI SHELTER: $1k → 12%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $5k → 12%ST MARY'S DINING HALL: $10k → 12%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOME OF STOCKTON: $10k → 12%LODI BOOSTERS OF BOYSGIRLS SPORTS: $3k → 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.

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 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.

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Central California Labrador Retriever Rescue

Dog rescue and adoption

Animals
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
3
Court Appointed Special Advocates of San Luis Obispo County Inc

The mission of San Luis Obispo CASA (SLO CASA) is to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children within the dependency court system. CASA recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers who advocate for this vulnerable…

Civil Rights
4
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

5
Casa El Dorado

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)El Dorado provides advocacy services to abused and neglected children in the Child Welfare System in El Dorado County, California.

Crime & Legal
6
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

7
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno

Respecting the presence of God among us, we serve, advocate for and empower those in need. In carrying out the social mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fresno, the Organization provides food, clothing, housing support,…

Human Services
8
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
9
Lodi Family Center

Family support

Human Services
10
La Posada Providencia

To operate human service programs that respond to the needs of the homeless population, in particular immigrants and asylum seekers.

Human Services
11
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Prevail Ca

To provide safety, compassion, and respect as we educate, empower, and advocate for individuals, families, and young people.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lodi House and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYST MARY'S DINING HALL — $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S DINING HALLWOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CENTERChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $10,000 · OtherChildren's Home of Stockton IncCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $10,000 · OtherCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside CountiesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $10,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKWOW - WORLDS OF WONDER INC — $10,000 · OtherWOW - WORLDS OF WONDER INCCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN CITY — $5,000 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY — $5,000 · Other+3 more — $7,000 · Other+3 moreLODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $25,931 · Youth DevelopmentLODI BOYS AND GIRLS …LODI HOUSE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLODI HOUSEGOSPEL CENTER RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterGOSPEL CENT…LODI ADOPT-A-CHILD — $5,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE ASSISTING LODI SHELTER — $1,000 · AnimalsAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 · Health
Other$97,000Youth Development$25,931Housing & Shelter$15,000Human Services$5,000Animals$1,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $25,931 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLODI HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLODI ADOPT-A-CHILD — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPEOPLE ASSISTING LODI SHELTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
  • Who funds LODI HOUSE
  • Who funds Children's Home of Stockton Inc
  • Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties
  • Who funds LODI ADOPT-A-CHILD
  • Who funds GOSPEL CENTER RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds PEOPLE ASSISTING LODI SHELTER
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc

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.

The Michael-David Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Michael-David Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Charles and Shirlene Clark Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Charles and Shirlene Clark Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles and Shirlene Clark Family 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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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