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Clarence Tomlinson Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$117kArts & Culture$106kYouth Development$60kFood & Nutrition$46kRecreation & Sports$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kEducation$25kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
MT PULASKI PARK DISTRICT$10,000
LAKE FORK COMMUNITY CENTER$7,500
ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL$4,500
BOY SCOUT TROOP 122$3,000
ST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH$2,500
ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,500
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,500
MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,500
UNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY$2,000
MT PULASKI LIBRARY DIST$2,000
CHRISTMAS ON VINEGAR HILL$2,000
MT PULASKI COMMUNITY BAND$1,000
THE HILLTOP CLUB OF MT PULASKI$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHOENIX VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 14%LAKE FORK COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 14%MT PULASKI CUSD 23: $26k → 14%MT PULASKI PARK DISTRICT: $25k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 14%MT PULASKI RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST: $16k → 14%MT PULASKI RURAL FIRE DEPT: $11k → 14%MT PULASKI CUSD 23: $11k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI CUSD 23: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI PARK DISTRICT: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $8k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $6k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $5k → 14%PEOPLE ACTING FOR SCHOOLS ED: $5k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $5k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $4k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $4k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $4k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 14%BOY SCOUT TROOP 122: $4k → 14%MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%MT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $3k → 14%BOY SCOUT TROOP 122: $3k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%ST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH: $3k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%MT PULASKI LIBRARY DIST: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%ST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH: $3k → 14%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$415k · 21 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$415k
$34k

Still filing today

10%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • MP
    MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $97k
  • MP
    MT PULASKI CUSD 23
    5× · 2017–2024 · $47k
  • MP
    MT PULASKI PARK DISTRICT
    5× · 2018–2025 · $37k

Funded once

  • MP
    MT PULASKI RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • MP
    MT PULASKI RURAL FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • PA
    PEOPLE ACTING FOR SCHOOLS ED
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $96,500 · OtherMT PULASKI HISTORICAL SOCIETYMT PULASKI CUSD 23: $47,370 · OtherMT PULASKI CUSD 23MT PULASKI PARK DISTRICT: $36,500 · OtherMT PULASKI PARK DISTRICTMT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122: $35,500 · OtherMT PULASKI BOY SCOUTS 122UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $29,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCHST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $22,250 · OtherMT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $21,500 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH: $21,500 · OtherZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $20,500 · OtherMT PULASKI RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST: $15,500 · Other+17 more: $107,300 · Other+17 moreTHE HILLTOP CLUB OF MT PULASKI: $3,100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$453,920Recreation & Sports$3,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HILLTOP CLUB OF MT PULASKI: $3,100 over 4y, 3.8% 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 LAKE FORK COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HILLTOP CLUB OF MT PULASKI ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clarence Tomlinson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence Tomlinson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Clarence Tomlinson Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Clarence Tomlinson Charitable Trust 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 28 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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