· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HBS - HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BOZEMAN DHARMA CENTER | $45,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MATENWA | $35,000 |
| LOOP LAB | $32,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COMUNIDAD CONNECT | $20,000 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH | $17,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE OLGA STORE BUILDING | $10,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
98 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF MATENWA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +56%
- TLTHE LOOP LAB INC6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +817%
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- CCCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- GNGlobal Network Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -11%
- POPARISH OF ST MATTHEWSone grant, 2023 · $21k
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
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.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Compassion Project. 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 36 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 1% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 146 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 FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN DHARMA CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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
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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.