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Clermont 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BLDG PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $105,000 |
| BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CHAPEL AND YORK US FOUNDATION | $63,270 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $61,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $30,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $25,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +74%
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +46%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $518k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +73%- BPBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kenneth & Nira Abramowitz Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
88 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 148 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds THE 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE CONCEPT INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Academy for Health & Lifespan Research Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Glades Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VENTURE CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gaynor Family Foundation · Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · David & Hildegarde Mahoney Foundation · Sallie B Phillips Foundation · Daelansa Foundation · Todd Goodwin Charitable Trust · Acquavella Family Foundation · The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 Clermont 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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