How much does Clark Charitable Trust give?

Clark Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $262,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Clark Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Animals (24%), Education (20%).

Who are Clark Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Judicial Watch Inc ($140k), University of the Cumberlands Inc ($120k), American Council of Trustees and Alumni ($115k).

Does Clark Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Clark Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Clark Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Network for Good.

Where is Clark Charitable Trust based?

Clark Charitable Trust is based in MA.

Clark Charitable Trust

Clark Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Clark Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

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 2024.

Arts & Culture$447kAnimals$407kEducation$336kPublic Benefit$160kInternational$87kHealth$71kRecreation & Sports$57kEnvironment$48kOther$0

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k13 grants · $237k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JUDICIAL WATCH INC	$25,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI	$25,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS	$25,000
HUMANE FARMING ASSSOCIATION	$20,000
PIERRE MONTEUX MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$20,000
FRIENDS OF LACKOTA ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$20,000
THE REVELS INC	$20,000
NEBRASKA BRASS BAND INC	$15,000
PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC	$12,000
ACCESS SPORT AMERICA INC	$10,000
EXOTIC FELINE RESCUE CENTER INC	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC	$10,000
LAST CHANCE CORRAL	$6,000
THE PLACE FOR WILD BIRDS	$5,000

02The need

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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 30 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+13%

Still filing today

83%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthOther

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

JUDICIAL WATCH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +141%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +158%
AC
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +58%

Funded once

TH
THE HENRY PURCELL SOCIETY OF BOSTON
one grant, 2019 · $10k
BP
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporationgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
DW
Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%

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.

Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

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,…

Animals

Performing Animal Welfare Society

Providing shelter and a permanent home for abused, abandoned and retired exotic animals.

Animals

Animal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast

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…

Animals

Harmony Animal Rescue Clinic

Helping animal rescue organizations save more lives by providing timely, low-cost veterinary care is the mission of harmony animal rescue clinic.

Animals

Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary

Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.

Animals

Humane Animal Partners

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…

Animals

Friends of Animal Adoptions Inc

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,…

Animals

Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

—

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

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:…

Animals

Animal Humane Society

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Farming Association; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$462,000Animals$358,000Education$225,000Other$289,729Human Services$156,000Public Benefit$140,000Environment$48,000

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

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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Clark Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clark Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

Play a game based on Clark’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home