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Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee

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.

$61k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$411k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$60k45%
FY202410$39k40%
FY20239$35k33%
FY20227$36k43%
FY20217$37k57%
FY202014$51k64%
FY201910$52k50%
FY20189$29k56%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$190kArts & Culture$118kEducation$73kHealth$28kHuman Services$13kCivil Rights$8kRecreation & Sports$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomen Donors Network: $190,021 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBarnard College: $71,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield Theatre Company Inc: $59,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHealthy Teen Network Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChristopher Coffland Memorial Fund Inc: $12,007 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSchool of American Ballet Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMs Foundation for Women Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Jazzharmonic Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSolving Kids' Cancer Inc: $4,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Youth Ballet Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Live Arts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $899 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield Country Day School Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnrwa USA National Committee Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Campaign Fund for the Environment Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Communities Together Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee

How much does Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee give?
Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee reported 12 grants totaling $60,797 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Arts & Culture (27%), Education (16%).
Who are Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Women Donors Network ($190k), Barnard College ($71k), Fairfield Theatre Company Inc ($60k).
Does Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee based?
Cler Foundation Erin K Rossitto Co-Trustee is based in CT.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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