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Clermont 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.

$458k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
50
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
50 to 76
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$8.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Clermont Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving39$438k8%
FY202350$437k8%
FY202255$464k11%
FY202176$576k28%
FY202061$513k18%
FY201967$452k27%
FY201862$345k29%
FY201764$393kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$759kEducation$637kReligion$487kHealth$391kEmployment$253kEnvironment$194kPhilanthropy$179kHuman Services$133kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
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CT
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Matenwa Inc$259,53087%
Bozeman Dharma Center$209,000822%
The Loop Lab Inc$197,000619%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$144,50060%
Village Health Works$116,00070%
Shallowford Presbyterian Church$112,0007n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$84,00070%
Agnes Scott College$80,19850%
Lexington Youth and Family Services Inc$76,0004n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$71,00070%
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All grantees of Clermont Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Matenwa Inc$259,53087%
Bozeman Dharma Center$209,000822%
The Loop Lab Inc$197,000619%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$144,50060%
Village Health Works$116,00070%
Shallowford Presbyterian Church$112,0007n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$84,00070%
Agnes Scott College$80,19850%
Lexington Youth and Family Services Inc$76,0004n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$71,00070%
Earthjustice$70,00080%
Montana Racial Equity Project$65,00055%
Crosscut Mountain Sports Center$62,00061%
Proctor Academy$60,00030%
Orcas Community Resource Center$60,00041%
United States Fund for Unicef$56,00080%
Direct Relief$56,00060%
Much Ministries Inc$54,58054%
Oxfam-America Inc$53,00070%
Save The Children Federation Inc$52,00070%
Barton College$48,00030%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$47,00060%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$42,00070%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School$41,00080%
Haven$38,00060%
Democracy Forward Foundation$35,00010%
Sigma Chi Foundation$35,00070%
Nurse-Family Partnership$35,00060%
Comunidad Connect$31,00042%
Messengers for Health$27,00025%
Global Network Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Trustees of Tufts College$25,00060%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$24,00040%
Friends of the Olga Store Building$20,00024%
Handel and Haydn Society$15,00050%
Opal Community Land Trust$15,00010%
Jacobs Pathway Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Greater Gallatin United Way Inc$15,00020%
Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc$14,50040%
Chattooga Conservancy$14,00072%
Mr Toms Heart Inc$13,0007n/a
United States Association for UNHCR$12,00020%
Wendell Historical Society$11,00036%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$10,00010%
The Help Center Inc$10,0002n/a
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$10,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$9,00040%
Beta Psi Foundation Inc$9,00051%
Women's Voices for the Earth$9,00030%
National Outdoor Leadership School$9,00020%
Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc$8,00020%
Spirit Rock Meditation Center$8,0002n/a
The San Juan Preservation Trust$7,50010%
Montana Abortion Access Program$7,50021%
Friends of the San Juans$7,50010%
Cary Memorial Library Foundation Inc$7,50051%
American Heart Association Inc$7,50020%
Lexington Symphony Inc$7,00070%
Vipassana Metta Foundation$7,0001n/a
Insight Meditation Community of Washington$6,5002n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$6,0003n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$6,00020%
National Scleroderma Foundation Inc$5,50030%
Saranaloka Foundation$5,50031%
Springboard Collaborative$5,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism Inc$5,0005n/a
Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture$5,00010%
Crossroads Community Church$5,0001n/a
Reach Out and Read Inc$5,00010%
Voteamerica$5,00010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$5,00020%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$5,00030%
Boston Rescue Mission Inc$4,83650%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$3,80040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$3,50020%
Newark Center for Meditative Culture$3,500246%
The Federation of Massachusetts Farmers and Gardeners Markets Inc$3,16010%
Lexington Historical Society$3,00030%
Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund$3,0001n/a
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey$3,00020%
Boston Ballet Inc$2,50030%
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center Inc$2,0002n/a
Mercy Corps$2,00010%
The Headwaters Academy Inc$2,00020%
Music Associates of Aspen Inc$2,0002n/a
Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children$1,5001n/a
Center for Mindful Self Compassion Inc$1,30010%
Saint Francis House Inc$1,15020%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$1,00010%
Compassion Project$1,0001n/a
Guadalupe Center Inc$1,00010%
Fresh Air Fund$1,00020%
Refugee Protection International Inc$1,00010%
First Christian Church$5001n/a
Kappa Delta Foundation Incorporated$50010%
Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc$50010%
Pine Street Inn Inc$50010%
Unc Health Foundation Inc$40010%
Franciscan Mission Service of North America$30010%
Food for the Poor Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($824k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Clermont Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Matenwa Inc: $259,530 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetBozeman Dharma Center: $209,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetThe Loop Lab Inc: $197,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $144,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Health Works: $116,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $84,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $80,198 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $71,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Racial Equity Project: $65,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCrosscut Mountain Sports Center: $62,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetProctor Academy: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOrcas Community Resource Center: $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuch Ministries Inc: $54,580 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBarton College: $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School: $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHaven: $38,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDemocracy Forward Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNurse-Family Partnership: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetComunidad Connect: $31,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMessengers for Health: $27,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGlobal Network Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Olga Store Building: $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHandel and Haydn Society: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOpal Community Land Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Gallatin United Way Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBig Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChattooga Conservancy: $14,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWendell Historical Society: $11,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeta Psi Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWomen's Voices for the Earth: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Resource Development Council of District IX Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Juan Preservation Trust: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontana Abortion Access Program: $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% 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 83.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · One Valley Community Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · BESS Family Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Glasser Family Fund · Donald Family Foundation · Seattle-Sonoran Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc

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 Clermont Foundation

How much does Clermont Foundation give?
Clermont Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $457,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Clermont Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (21%), Education (17%), Religion (13%).
Who are Clermont Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Matenwa Inc ($260k), Bozeman Dharma Center ($209k), The Loop Lab Inc ($197k).
Does Clermont Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clermont Foundation 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 Clermont Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, One Valley Community Foundation, The Rieschel Foundation.
Where is Clermont Foundation based?
Clermont Foundation is based in MA.

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 146 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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