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Clemens Family Foundation at a glance

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Clemens Family 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.

$194k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$215kEnvironment$120kScience & Tech$71kHealth$67kInternational$46kFood & Nutrition$7kEducation$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXIAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION$70,000
EARTH JUSTICE$40,000
PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL$40,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS$3,500
UNICEF$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS$3,000
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY & OUR FUTURE$500
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PATHFINDER FUND: $75k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MASS: $10k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY & OUR FUTURE: $500 → 9%EARTH JUSTICE: $30k → 10%GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $50k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 14%PATHFINDER FUND: $75k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MASS: $10k → 16%EARTH JUSTICE: $20k → 10%GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $50k → 10%UNICEF: $3k → 17%GREENPEACE USA: $8k → 14%PATHFINDER FUND: $75k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MASS: $2k → 16%EARTH JUSTICE: $10k → 10%GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $50k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS: $3k → 17%PATHFINDER FUND: $75k → 8%EARTH JUSTICE: $10k → 10%GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $50k → 10%PATHFINDER FUND: $55k → 8%EARTH JUSTICE: $10k → 10%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS: $4k → 8%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS: $3k → 8%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$723k · 6 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$723k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+11%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PF
    PATHFINDER FUND
    5× · 2018–2023 · $355k · revenue +96% · 86% of their budget
  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +32%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEXIAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • PI
    PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -12%
  • EJ
    EARTH JUSTICE
    one grant, 2024 · $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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
12
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pathfinder Fund. 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 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHFINDER FUND: $355,000 · OtherPATHFINDER FUNDNEXIAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherNEXIAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATIONEARTH JUSTICE: $40,000 · OtherEARTH JUSTICEPLANNED PARENTHOOD MASS: $21,500 · Other+2 more: $8,500 · OtherGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $215,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL+2 more: $6,000 · InternationalEARTHJUSTICE: $80,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $45,000 · HealthCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Education
Other$495,000International$261,000Environment$80,000Health$45,000Food & Nutrition$6,500Education$500

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 budgetPATHFINDER FUND: $355,000 over 5y, 86% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $215,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Clemens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clemens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 14 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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