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Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,434
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,434
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving1$2k0%
FY20231$251k0%
FY202215$119k0%
FY202115$119k7%
FY202015$116kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$313kHealth$195kArts & Culture$39kEnvironment$21kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$15kReligion$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duxbury Bay Maritime School Inc$298,18858%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$15,00030%
South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc$15,00030%
South Shore Hospital Inc$15,00030%
Crossroads for Kids Inc$15,00030%
Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc$12,00030%
Wildlands Trust Inc$9,00030%
The Duxbury Education Foundation Inc$9,00035%
Project Gurnet & Bug Lights Inc$9,000310%
Duxbury Free Library Inc$6,00032%
Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuxbury Bay Maritime School Inc: $298,188 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Shore Conservatory of Music Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Shore Hospital Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads for Kids Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDuxbury Beach Reservation Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWildlands Trust Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Duxbury Education Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetProject Gurnet & Bug Lights Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetDuxbury Free Library Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPlimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt &DE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt & · The Safe Family Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx18003 · The Rice Family Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Richard H and M Sheila Morse Charitable Trust C/O R H Morse Ttee · The Foundation for Creative Achievement Eve Grace Penoyer Ttee · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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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Find your warmest path to Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

About Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $2,434 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (32%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Duxbury Bay Maritime School Inc ($298k), The Home for Little Wanderers Inc ($15k), South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc ($15k).
Does Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt &, The Safe Family Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx18003, The Rice Family Charitable Foundation.
Where is Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc 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 16 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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