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Clear Eye Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$7,843
Largest grant, FY2022
$7,843
Organizations funded a year
1 to 25
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Clear Eye Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$8k0%
FY20206$40k83%
FY201725$226kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$156kPhilanthropy$50kCommunity Improvement$38kEducation$15kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clear Eye Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFilm at Lincoln Center Inc: $128,248 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTed Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens Committee for New York City Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMilton Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaymakers for Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublicolor Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $945 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rainforest Fund Inc: $840 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSquash and Education Alliance Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mvyradio Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBottomless Closet: $492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $474 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoets House Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Red Sox Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Tisbury Library Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Clear Eye Foundation

How much does Clear Eye Foundation give?
Clear Eye Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $7,843 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Clear Eye Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Philanthropy (18%), Community Improvement (14%).
Who are Clear Eye Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Film at Lincoln Center Inc ($128k), The Sapling Foundation ($50k), Ted Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Clear Eye Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clear Eye Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clear Eye Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Clear Eye Foundation based?
Clear Eye Foundation is based in NY.

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 30 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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