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Clearing Corporation Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of CLEARING CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $893k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEARING CORPORATION CHARITABLE FUND | $2,352,650 |
| DAWLEY CHARITABLE FUND | $1,552,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $350,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $350,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $350,000 |
| HEALEY CENTER FOR ALS | $250,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $197,500 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
| THE FILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT | $152,500 |
| WESTERN DUPAGE SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $107,500 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $80,000 |
| ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY FOR THE HCB DEANS FUND FOR EXCELLENCE | $37,500 |
| PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 77% of Clearing Corporation Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M 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
- ULUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS3× · 2018–2020 · $230k · revenue +83%
- IIIllinois Institute of Technology2× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +27%
- BNBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC2× · 2017–2019 · $110k · revenue +37%
Funded once
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue +127%- RURoosevelt Universityone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -25%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Sussex County Agricultural Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds FIRST WORKINGS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds A LEG TO STAND ON INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clearing Corporation 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.
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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