· Private foundation
Clark Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $25,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI | $25,000 |
| THE REVELS INC | $20,000 |
| PIERRE MONTEUX MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LACKOTA ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| HUMANE FARMING ASSSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA BRASS BAND INC | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC | $12,000 |
| EXOTIC FELINE RESCUE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| ACCESS SPORT AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC | $10,000 |
| LAST CHANCE CORRAL | $6,000 |
| THE PLACE FOR WILD BIRDS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +141%- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +158%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- BPBoston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
- THTHE HENRY PURCELL SOCIETY OF BOSTONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- DWDesert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centerone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Providing shelter and a permanent home for abused, abandoned and retired exotic animals.
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
Helping animal rescue organizations save more lives by providing timely, low-cost veterinary care is the mission of harmony animal rescue clinic.
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Friends of animal adoptions, inc. (the organization), is a minnesota non- profit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals; provide shelter, emergency and other medical care; and to find good adoptive homes for cats,…
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Farming Association and the most unlike its peers is Harvest Now. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 42 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds REVELSINC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA BRASS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PIERRE MONTEUX MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE CORRAL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lackota Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds SERAPHIM SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Cathedral Concerts ↗
- Who funds SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COCHISE CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HIWASSEE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERGEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER T/A FOCAS ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC ↗
- Who funds WOLLY KITTEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds PET WELFARE ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HARVEST NOW ↗
- Who funds HORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE 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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Clark Charitable Trust 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.
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Revelsinc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% 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.