· Private foundation
Claws Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $800k
- $250k+10 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| DIA ART FOUNDATION | $2,534,565 |
| WOMEN IN NEED INC | $2,025,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATION | $1,500,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000,000 |
| CALDER GARDENS | $1,000,000 |
| REFUGE POINT | $750,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $600,000 |
| HIRSHHORN MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FACES | $200,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $14.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2017–2024 · $30M · revenue +88%
- TSTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA4× · 2017–2022 · $13M · revenue +24%
- RIREFUGEPOINT INC6× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +277% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- FFFIDELITY FREEDOM TRUST AND JUSTICE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $2.3M
- OMOPENDOR MEDIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +97%
- CFCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +77%
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.
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.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SILVER VALLEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT 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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Susquehanna Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Armstrong Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Snider Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Claws Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claws Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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