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Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+83 grants · $184M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $23,000,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $7,900,000 |
| MEDSTAR HEALTH INC | $7,750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $7,000,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $5,750,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $4,265,090 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC | $4,100,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $4,000,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $4,000,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $3,750,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $49.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
177 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 107 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33M 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
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $166M · revenue +72% · 30% of their budget- CNCHILDREN'S NATIONAL4× · 2020–2023 · $31M · revenue +43%
- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH INC4× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- COChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4.5M · revenue +194% · 62% of their budget
- GIGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2022 · $3.2M
- RVRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $3.0M
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul - Twin Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
301 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 301 of the 349 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Citybridge Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund
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 Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Engineering for Us All Inc — 68% of income from government
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Child Justice Inc — 33% of income from government
- Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance 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.
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