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Clements Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$25MArts & Culture$850kFood & Nutrition$500kHealth$255kPublic Benefit$200kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$55kMembership Benefit$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $11M
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FOUNDATION$10,500,000
THE WILLIAMSON MUSEUM$175,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$75,000
HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 8 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$15M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10M · revenue +90% · 66% of their budget
  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
  • Texas 2036
    2× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +35%
  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +24%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
2
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
3
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
5
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
6
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
7
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

10
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
11
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
12
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Philips School and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Forney Cemetery Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FOUNDATION — $10,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINUT BOARD OF REGENTS — $850,000 · OtherUT BOARD OF REGENTSCLEMENTS CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $600,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $500,000 · Other+7 more — $927,500 · Other+7 moreHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,400,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSouthern Methodist University — $1,225,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University+1 more — $30,000 · EducationBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $250,000 · HealthADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTexas 2036 — $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyThe Family Place — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$14,377,500Education$11,655,000Health$250,000Arts & Culture$250,000Public Benefit$200,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,400,000 over 8y, 66% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $1,225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTexas 2036 — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTaos Art Museum — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetThe Family Place — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORNEY CEMETERY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 54% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Rees-Jones FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rees-Jones Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Clements 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clements Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clements Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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