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Clif Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
459
Grants FY2024still arriving
48
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$14MFood & Nutrition$12MHealth$5.4MCommunity Improvement$3.8MPublic Benefit$3.5MEducation$3.0MRecreation & Sports$3.0MArts & Culture$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 459 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k61 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k311 grants · $6.5M
  • $50k–250k69 grants · $9.2M
  • $250k+18 grants · $8.2M
$20,000
Median grant
48
States reached
$571M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
County of Napa$3,000,000
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs$625,000
State Power Fund dba We Make The Future$400,000
The Chisholm Legacy Project$350,000
Fair Food Network$310,000
Community Partners$300,000
Union of Concerned Scientists$300,000
NDN Collective Inc$300,000
Coalition of Immokalee Workers$300,000
Greater Kansas Community Foundation$300,000
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$300,000
Leadership Counsel for Justice & Account$250,000
Movement Strategy Center$250,000
The Tides Center$250,000
Greenlining Institute$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hidden Harvest Corp: $10k → 11%CAL FIRE Benevolent Foundation: $25k → 12%Family Services of Tulare County: $10k → 18%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement: $20k → 11%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $20k → 17%ADELANTE MUJERES: $50k → 8%Social Enterprise Trust: $35k → 11%Repurpose Savannah: $25k → 16%Northwest Association For Blind Athletes: $15k → 9%Ethos Farm Project: $25k → 4%Growing Places Garden Project: $10k → 11%Winter Wildlands Alliance: $15k → 8%Family Services of Tulare County: $10k → 18%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement: $20k → 11%ADELANTE MUJERES: $25k → 8%Emergent Structures Inc: $12k → 16%Winter Wildlands Alliance: $15k → 8%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $20k → 10%Equitable Food Initiative: $150k → 14%Children's Literacy Network: $10k → 14%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE: $7k → 8%UpValley Family Center: $20k → 9%Multicultural Refugee Coalition: $20k → 10%Paradox Sports: $15k → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $25k → 12%Propeller: $35k → 23%UpValley Family Center: $10k → 9%Multicultural Refugee Coalition: $12k → 10%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $25k → 12%Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans: $35k → 23%Solutions for Change: $38k → 11%Solutions for Change: $10k → 11%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $10k → 12%Urban Strategies Inc: $10k → 11%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $10k → 12%The Honeycomb Project: $25k → 14%The Honeycomb Project: $25k → 14%The Honeycomb Project: $10k → 14%Forget Me Not Childrens Services: $30k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%Women's Wilderness Institute: $25k → 12%Women's Wilderness Institute: $25k → 12%reDiscover Center: $20k → 14%The Tides Center: $250k → 10%The Tides Center: $25k → 10%reDiscover Center: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38M · 811 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

811 repeat relationships — 326 still active in FY2024, 485 since wound down; 126 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

811
383

Total granted

$38M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+23%

Still filing today

81%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BC
    BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +25%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $650k · revenue +326%
  • CE
    CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NV
    Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -27% · 74% of their budget
  • SM
    ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue 0%
  • RI
    Rodale Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
3
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
4
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

—
6
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
9
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

—
10
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

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 Napa County Seed Library. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringDevelopmental Disabilities …Public Library OperationsCommunity College Foundatio…School District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery ServicesChristian Youth CampsMilitary Veterans SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%15/1,020
the rest of the field
13%
240,381/1,818,545

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.

04the grantee network

987 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. 987 of the 1,332 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
418
Early backer (in before they grew)
955/987
Grantees still filing
693/987
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUNTY OF NAPA — $3,000,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF NAPALuna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity — $1,305,000 · OtherLuna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance &…Scholarship America — $658,246 · OtherCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $600,000 · Other+93 more — $12,278,869 · Other+93 moreNapa Valley Vine Trail Coalition — $1,300,000 · EnvironmentNapa Valley Vine T…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $650,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRON…Pesticide Action Network North America — $260,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth — $250,000 · EnvironmentInternational Living Future Institute — $225,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION — $200,000 · EnvironmentSAGE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentCOMING CLEAN INC — $200,000 · Environment+24 more — $2,065,750 · Environment+24 moreFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC — $407,000 · Food & NutritionFAIR FOOD …REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATI…Rodale Institute — $240,000 · Food & NutritionRodale Ins…Farmworker Association of Florida Inc — $167,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $163,000 · Food & NutritionFAIR FOOD STANDARDS COUNCIL INC — $150,000 · Food & NutritionORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN — $112,000 · Food & Nutrition+22 more — $1,727,300 · Food & Nutrition+22 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $305,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $300,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $280,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $272,500 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $253,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $250,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $225,000 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD — $200,000 · Community ImprovementINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $175,000 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $166,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $150,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $67,500 · Community ImprovementBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $1,370,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $300,000 · HealthGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $175,000 · HealthMIGRANT CLINICIANS NETWORK INC — $160,000 · HealthSAJE — $150,000 · HealthSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $105,000 · HealthGreensprings Learning Community — $950,000 · EducationSustainable Economies Law Center — $200,000 · EducationThe Climate Center — $190,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $152,600 · EducationCornell University — $120,000 · EducationCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC — $115,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC — $105,000 · EducationCommunity Resources for Science — $95,000 · Education+2 more — $133,000 · EducationTIDES CENTER — $292,310 · Human ServicesAlianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesEquitable Food Initiative — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $107,500 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $94,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS — $89,000 · Human ServicesTHE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP — $85,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES — $84,000 · Human ServicesForget Me Not Childrens Services — $75,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $73,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE — $63,500 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $61,000 · Human Services
Other$17,842,115Environment$5,750,750Food & Nutrition$3,266,800Community Improvement$2,644,000Health$2,260,000Education$2,060,600Human Services$1,375,310

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $1,370,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetLuna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity — $1,305,000 over 7y, 53% of budgetNapa Valley Vine Trail Coalition — $1,300,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetGreensprings Learning Community — $950,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $650,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $600,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC — $407,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $405,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION — $400,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT INC — $350,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $305,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $300,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $300,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $292,310 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $280,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $272,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America — $260,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $253,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTaproot Earth — $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY — $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $250,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC — $247,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetRodale Institute — $240,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHABITABLE — $230,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $228,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Living Future Institute — $225,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $225,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION — $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAlianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRACE FORWARD — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center — $200,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Climate Center — $190,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $175,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $175,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

PatagoniaorgUNFI FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…Farm Aid IncResources Legacy FundThe Joseph and Vera L…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Rose Foundation f…Mary a Crocker TrustNatural Resources Def…Rei Cooperative Actio…The Marisla Foundation
PatagoniaorgCA125× affinity236 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · UNFI Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Mary a Crocker Trust · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Marisla Foundation

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 Clif Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Rogue Farm Corps — 91% of income from government
  • Future Harvest Inc — 41% of income from government
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Clif Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clif Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1332 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home