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Clara Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$197kInternational$28kEducation$27kAnimals$21kArts & Culture$13kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
$250
Median grant
13
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Rehabilitation Center for Children$500
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League$500
FINCA$500
First Serve$500
Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket$500
Jane Goodall Institute$500
Hanley Foundation$500
St Labre Indian School$360
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%Small Friends: $50 → 6%SMALL FRIENDS: $25 → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$319k · 58 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
11

Total granted

$319k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

59%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +120%
  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +74%
  • PA
    Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NI
    NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -44%
  • AF
    Acadia Family Center
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -99%
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
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc

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…

Environment
2
Nantucket Atheneum Inc

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,…

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3
Nantucket Ice Company Inc

To promote a safe and healthy recreational environment where nantucket children, adults, and families can gather to enjoy the sport of ice-skating

Recreation & Sports
4
Nha Properties Inc

Provide safe, sanitary, and suitable living accommodations for low, moderate, and middle income persons within nantucket county.

Housing & Shelter
5
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

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6
Aquidneck Island Land Trust

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.

Environment
7
Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Nantucket Community Music Center

To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.

Arts & Culture
10
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission

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.

Community Improvement
11
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
12
Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for An: $194,100 · OtherNantucket Island Safe Harbor for AnPALM BEACH DAY SCHOOL: $20,530 · OtherPALM BEACH DAY SCHOOLNANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $9,500 · Other+42 more: $45,435 · Other+42 moreSEVA FOUNDATION: $6,220 · InternationalChildren International: $5,350 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,900 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,800 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,600 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,310 · International+2 more: $200 · InternationalPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $9,080 · HealthRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $2,500 · HealthSAIL TO PREVAIL: $1,750 · HealthPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $6,100 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $3,000 · AnimalsMarine Mammal Alliance Nantucket: $2,000 · AnimalsARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $5,050 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC: $2,600 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,630 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $800 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC: $800 · Arts & CultureISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $800 · Housing & Shelter'SCONSET TRUST INC: $1,600 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $600 · Environment
Other$269,565International$20,380Health$13,330Animals$11,100Arts & Culture$10,880Housing & Shelter$7,800Environment$3,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $9,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $6,220 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $6,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren International: $5,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $5,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC: $2,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcadia Family Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMarine Mammal Alliance Nantucket: $2,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,310 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMESTEAD INC OF NANTUCKET: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC: $800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NANTUCKET EDUCATION TRUST INC: $425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC: $375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND THE ARTS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
  • Who funds Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
  • 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 FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Ernst & Elfriede Fran…Charina Foundation In…Nantucket Golf Club F…Gilbert Verney Founda…The Hajim Family Foun…The Hale Family Found…Carverdelaney Familie…Meyer & Jean Steinber…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Nancy Sayles Day Foun…The Linda and Harvey …
Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Clara Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clara Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 69 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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