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Clarke Hook Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
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.

Human Services$530kEducation$290kCivil Rights$150kHealth$135kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSA HEALTH CLINIC$20,000
ST ANNE'S INFANT HOME$15,000
PAUL VI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
ST JOSEPH'S CENTER$15,000
FATHER MARTIN'S ASHLEY$15,000
THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME$15,000
MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION$10,000
ST MARK CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$10,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $15k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WY
OH
PA
CT
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+113%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AI
    ASHLEY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +62%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPHS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +59%
  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FK
    FEEDING KENTUCKY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +113%
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

7 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. 7 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL VI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $140,000 · OtherST PAUL VI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLST ANNE'S INFANT HOME: $135,000 · OtherST ANNE'S INFANT HOMETHE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: $135,000 · OtherTHE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEROSA HEALTH CLINIC: $100,000 · OtherROSA HEALTH CLINICST MARK CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherST MARK CATHOLIC SCHOOLGARDENIA HOUSE: $85,000 · OtherGARDENIA HOUSE+2 more: $15,000 · OtherSouthern Center for Human Rights: $125,000 · Civil RightsSouthern Cente…MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsMATTHEW SHEPAR…ASHLEY INC: $135,000 · HealthASHLEY INCST JOSEPHS CENTER: $135,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CE…SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEEDING KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$700,000Civil Rights$150,000Health$135,000Human Services$135,000Crime & Legal$10,000International$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASHLEY INC: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $125,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 ASHLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING KENTUCKY INC ↗

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.

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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 Clarke Hook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarke Hook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 15 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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