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Clein-Lemann Esperanza Foundation at a glance

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Clein-Lemann Esperanza 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$460k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.3MCivil Rights$200kCommunity Improvement$100kArts & Culture$30kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
  • $250k+2 grants · $710k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND$460,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$250,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$200,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$80,000
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INCORPORATED$50,000
BARD COLLEGE$33,333
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$33,000
826 NEW ORLEANS$30,000
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PHARMA: $40k → 14%BARD COLLEGE: $33k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND: $460k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INCORPORATED: $50k → 23%BARD COLLEGE: $33k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND: $400k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INCORPORATED: $50k → 23%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%826 NEW ORLEANS: $30k → 23%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $33k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 3 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$40k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $860k · revenue -17%
  • PA
    PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +78%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $67k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PHARMA
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
2
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; the most unlike its peers is 826 New Orleans. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $860,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $320,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …BARD COLLEGE: $66,666 · Education+2 more: $63,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYPRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200,000 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PHARMA: $40,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,309,666Community Improvement$1,100,000Civil Rights$200,000Other$40,000Philanthropy$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $860,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $320,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN: $100,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $66,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 NEW ORLEANS: $30,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clein-Lemann Esperanza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clein-Lemann Esperanza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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