· Private foundation
Clara Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k45 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for An | $47,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,587 |
| Children International | $1,250 |
| Seva Foundation | $1,080 |
| Partners-In-Health | $1,080 |
| Theatre Workshop of Nantucket | $1,000 |
| Island Housing Trust | $1,000 |
| Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket | $500 |
| Jane Goodall Institute | $500 |
| Hanley Foundation | $500 |
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League | $500 |
| FINCA | $500 |
| First Serve | $500 |
| Rehabilitation Center for Children | $500 |
| St Labre Indian School | $360 |
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, $375) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +120%- IHISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION4× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +74%
- PAPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NINANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFAcadia Family Centerone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -99%
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -44%
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.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
The nantucket atheneum, a private non-profit organization provides public library service to the island's year-round and seasonal residents, housed in a historic 1847 building and the weezie library for children. the atheneum collects,…
To promote a safe and healthy recreational environment where nantucket children, adults, and families can gather to enjoy the sport of ice-skating
Provide safe, sanitary, and suitable living accommodations for low, moderate, and middle income persons within nantucket county.
Provide low income elderly housing.
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Gilbert Verney Foundation · The Hajim Family Foundation · The Hale Family Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · The Linda and Harvey Saligman 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 Clara Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.