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Clark Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southwestern Community College Educ | $120,317 |
| American Red Cross | $73,597 |
| Veterans Community Project | $54,476 |
| Iowa State University Education | $50,253 |
| Midwest Mission Distribution Center | $47,352 |
| St Judes Childrens Research | $41,892 |
| The Salvation Army | $37,584 |
| United Service Organizations USO | $21,400 |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $19,801 |
| Newton Dollars for Scholars | $1,625 |
| Project Awake | $1,625 |
| Days for Girls Newton Chapter | $1,625 |
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $1,625 |
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 (FY20–20, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +125% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2020 · $97k · revenue +46%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2018–2020 · $43k · revenue +125%- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $21k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- LLLeukemia & Lymphoma Societone grant, 2018 · $2k
- NYNEWTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +87%
- NPNewton Project Awakeone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
The methodist church is a global denomination that opens hearts, opens minds and opens doors through active engagement with our world. the mission of the methodist church is to make disciples of jesus christ for the transformation of the…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The society is a multidisciplinary professional medical organization dedicated to improving human health by advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy.
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
The vision of nss is people living and working in thriving communities beyond the earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.
Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cellular therapy.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The association of military banks of america (amba) is a not-for-profit trade association that represents financial institutions specializing in providing worldwide banking services for military personnel, veterans, and their families.…
The navy memorial mission is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services and the important contributions made by them while serving in the united states navy, marine corps, coast guard and merchant marine. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST MISSION DISTRIBUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEWTON ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clark Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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