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Cleve Gray 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.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$51k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$268kEducation$130kRecreation & Sports$63kHealth$53kPhilanthropy$42kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kEmployment$1k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$750
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY$51,492
MCNAY MUSEUM$14,367
EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT$10,000
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART$8,620
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$4,081
NORTHWEST CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
CITYARTS INC$1,000
CHORE SERVICE INC$750
WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$500
SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST$500
Individual grant recipient$500
PRIME TIME HOUSE$500
SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE$500
FRIENDS OF NEUBERGER MUSEUM$500
ARTGARAGE$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CHORE SERVICE INC: $2k → 9%CHORE SERVICE INC: $750 → 9%CHORE SERVICE INC: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 11 repeat orgs$428k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$113k
$347k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ES
    EAST SIDE HOUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +31%
  • CS
    CHORE SERVICE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +69%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
    one grant, 2019 · $51k
  • FG
    FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $51k
  • TF
    THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $47k · revenue +11%
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.

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Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
2
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
6
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
7
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…

Arts & Culture
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Roothbert Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 42 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $50,724 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $50,572 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYNAUGATUCK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $27,950 · OtherNAUGATUCK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGEFIVE POINTS ART CENTER: $21,838 · OtherFIVE POINTS ART CENTERNEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART: $21,286 · OtherNEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,930 · OtherSOUTHBURY PUBLIC LIBRARYREGIS HIGH SCHOOL: $12,068 · OtherREGIS HIGH SCHOOL+12 more: $7,238 · OtherTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $47,242 · EducationTHE FREDERICK GUNN SC…MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC: $19,539 · EducationMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INCTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $17,244 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $11,494 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEDavidson College: $4,081 · Education+2 more: $4,373 · EducationWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $30,509 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH ATHENEUM …THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $29,884 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE …MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $14,367 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $8,620 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONT…SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $8,620 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM …+4 more: $2,050 · Arts & CultureEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $62,500 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE HO…THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $51,492 · HealthTHE CENTER…+1 more: $500 · HealthBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,068 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCHORE SERVICE INC: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$224,606Education$103,973Arts & Culture$94,050Recreation & Sports$62,500Health$51,992Philanthropy$20,068Human Services$3,000

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 budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $51,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $47,242 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $30,509 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $29,884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC: $19,539 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $17,244 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $14,367 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $11,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $8,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $8,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $4,081 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORE SERVICE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $2,873 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROOTHBERT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRIME TIME HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTWORKS NYC INC: $750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSALISBURY VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $100 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.

Northwest Community B…Berkshire Taconic Com…Anne and Rollin Bates…The Hallingby Family …Northwest Connecticut…The Connecticut Commu…Low Road FoundationTorrington Savings Fo…Foundation for Commun…The Cowles Charitable…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Communal Fund
Northwest Community Bank Foundation IncCT24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Low Road Foundation · Torrington Savings Foundation · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Cleve Gray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleve Gray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Salisbury Housing Committee Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Prime Time House Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Mccall Foundation Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Salisbury Housing Trust: 25% of income from government
  • The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • American Mural Project Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

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How do I get to Cleve Gray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cleve Gray 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 42 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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