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CLARKSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$205k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants
5
Communities
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2022.
Education$1.3MEnvironment$85kHealth$50kMembership Benefit$10kOther$280k
02FY2022 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$60,000
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$30,000
- BAYSIDE CEMETARY ASSOCIATION$20,000
- MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S INSTITUTION$20,000
- THE LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$15,000
- HAVEN'S RELIEF FUND$10,000
- AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE$10,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD NYC$10,000
- WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
- COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$10,000
- NATURE CONSERVANCY NYC$5,000
- ST PAUL'S SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
1
Total granted
$1.7M
$10k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+102%
Still filing today
58%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEnvironmentHealthMembership BenefitOther
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
- CUCLARKSON UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +2%
- TLTHE LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +66%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND4× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BCBAYSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +102%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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2
National Wildlife Federation
Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.
Animals
3
The Montana Land Reliance
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Environment
4
Marine Biological Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery - exploring fundamental biology, understanding biodiversity and the environment, and informing the human condition through research and education in biology,…
Science & Tech
5
Bristol Bay Science & Research Institute
To foster economic and social benefits for bristol bay to ensure sustainability of the region's renewable natural resources through scientific research and management.
Science & Tech
6
World Resources Institute
To create change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.
International
7
Hudson River Foundation for Science and
Inspire/inform action through science/engagement for the hudson river & its watershed (schedule o)
Environment
8
The Academy of Natural Sciences of
Understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it.
Science & Tech
9
Linden Trust for Conservation
Philanthropy
10
The Wildlife Society
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Animals
11
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
Environment
12
The Water Research Foundation
Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Havens Relief Fund Society. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,320,000Other$280,000Environment$85,000Health$50,000Membership Benefit$10,000
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 CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation CLARKSON 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BAYSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~51 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 390154360 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BAYSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 51 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Clarkson Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Clarkson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines