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Clearfield County Charitable Foundation
Assists donors to enhance charitable giving by building and maintaining a permanent collection of endowment funds exclusively for the betterment of clearfield county for present and future generations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $305,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $532,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $227,027 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH SHAW PUBLIC LIBRARY | $53,760 |
| CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY | $53,222 |
| CLEARFIELD YMC | $44,711 |
| CLEARFIELD CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $43,420 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $43,154 |
| CLEARFIELD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $29,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DUBOIS | $15,000 |
| SERENDIPITY HORSE RESCUE RANCH | $8,100 |
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 (FY18–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- JEJOSEPH & ELIZABETH SHAW PUBLIC LIBRARY7× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +148%
- CAChildrens Aid Society in Clearfield County7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +35%
- CECLEARFIELD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $192k · revenue +25% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- CRClearfield Revitalization Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +44%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -24%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION IN CLFD CTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
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.
The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.
Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical, grassroots Christian ministry with the goal of eliminating poverty housing.
Program Services to Aging Population in Clearfield County
Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.
We strive to revitalize the Claysville area and preserve its heritage.
To plan, promote and implement community action programs for the Clearfield and Centre County areas.
To provide quality library resources that inform, educate, entertain, and enrich all the residents of clearfield county, pennsylvania.
Organization formed to support member libraries in crawford county, pa
The Association undertakes projects that reduce community deteriora- tion through the renovation of vacant and deteriorating buildings.
Medical Clinic Services & Housing for those in Need
To further the development of Clear Lake, IA and the surrounding area for its citizens.
Preservation of historical building which is part of the rich heritage of catholic roots in this part of keokuk county, iowa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearfield Revitalization Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library. 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 12 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 JOSEPH & ELIZABETH SHAW PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Aid Society in Clearfield County ↗
- Who funds CLEARFIELD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens' Christian Association of Clearfield ↗
- Who funds Clearfield County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DUBOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Clearfield Revitalization Corporation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION IN CLFD CTY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clearfield County Charitable 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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