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Clemons 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.

$423k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$610kEducation$447kYouth Development$59kCrime & Legal$23kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$4kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $264k
$14,005
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCI FOUNDATION$200,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$63,713
SANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATION$42,500
ANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION$25,000
MARINER'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$20,000
LULU'S PLACE$20,000
CASA$14,005
CHOC FOUNDATION$10,650
ROY O ANDERSEN ELEMENTARY PTA$10,000
DECORATIVE ART SOCIETY$10,000
HUNTSMAN$5,150
SEMESTER AT SEA$1,036
MORGANTOWN MISSION INC$1,000
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boys Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $25k → 8%CASA: $14k → 10%LULU'S PLACE: $20k → 14%HUNTSMAN: $5k → 8%SEMESTER AT SEA: $1k → 11%California Gamma Foundation: $3k → 16%Freedom Alliance: $3k → 4%Morgantown Mission Inc: $3k → 19%RAD Camp: $10k → 10%MORGANTOWN MISSION INC: $1k → 19%CHOC FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%Hoag Hospital Foundation: $200k → 10%Hoag Hospital Foundation: $125k → 10%Hoag Hospital Foundation: $108k → 10%Hoag Hospital Foundation: $97k → 10%HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $64k → 10%Andersen DEANs Foundation: $30k → 10%ANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%Santa Margarita Eagle Foundation: $50k → 10%Andersen DEANs Foundation: $15k → 10%SANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATION: $43k → 10%ROY O ANDERSEN ELEMENTARY PTA: $10k → 10%Santa Margarita Eagle Foundation: $13k → 10%DECORATIVE ART SOCIETY: $10k → 10%Santa Margarita High School Foundat: $5k → 10%Roy O Andersen Elementary PTA: $5k → 10%THE UCI FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%The UCI Foundation: $5k → 10%The UCI Foundation: $5k → 10%Court Appointed Special Advocates o: $23k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Clemons Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 89%.

Clemons Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 7 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+61%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsCivil RightsInternationalOther
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 CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +3%
  • SM
    SANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +27%
  • AD
    ANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +61%
  • RC
    RAD CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +231%
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
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
6
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
9
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rad Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $594,090 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,650 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $210,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIO…SANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATION: $105,499 · EducationSANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATIONANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION: $70,100 · EducationANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATIONMariners Elementary School Foundation: $40,000 · EducationMariners Elementary School Foundation+1 more: $1,036 · EducationBoys Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $25,290 · OtherROY O ANDERSEN ELEMENTARY PTA: $15,000 · OtherCASA: $14,005 · OtherDECORATIVE ART SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN: $5,150 · OtherSanta Margarita High School Foundat: $5,000 · OtherMorgantown Mission Inc: $3,500 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherLULU'S PLACE INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsRAD CAMP INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $23,000 · Civil RightsFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $2,500 · International
Health$604,740Education$426,635Other$80,445Recreation & Sports$30,000Civil Rights$23,000International$2,500

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 budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $594,090 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA MARGARITA EAGLE FOUNDATION: $105,499 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION: $70,100 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMariners Elementary School Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLULU'S PLACE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $10,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAD CAMP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $1,036 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clemons Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clemons Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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