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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Education$313kHealth$195kArts & Culture$39kEnvironment$21kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$15kReligion$9k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,434
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Duxbury Bay Maritime School$2,434
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$605k · 15 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$605k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DB
    DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $298k · revenue +75%
  • THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +108%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +7%

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.

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Duxbury Rural & Historical Society Inc

The duxbury rural and historical society (drhs) strives to be a responsible steward of our historical buildings, museum objects, archives, and lands. we welcome all audiences to learn along with us, explore our collections, and interpret…

Arts & Culture
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Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
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Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
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Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
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Trustees of Partridge Academy in Duxbury
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Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Inc

To preserve and protect dartmouth's natural resources for people and nature, forever.

Environment
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Duxbury Student Union Association

When we invest in children, we invest in Duxburys future. Together, were not just preparing kids for what comes next; were preparing them for life, helping them discover who they are, what theyre capable of, and how they can shape the…

Education
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Proprietors of the Social Law Library

To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.

9
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
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Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History

Arts & Culture
12
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Gurnet & Bug Lights 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC — $298,188 · EducationDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INCBrigham and Women's Hospital — $165,000 · OtherBrigham and Women's HospitalBeth Israel Deaconess Hospital — $15,000 · OtherBeth Israel Deaconess HospitalFirst Parish Church — $9,000 · OtherDuxbury Historical Society — $9,000 · OtherTHE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · Other+2 more — $10,000 · OtherSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT GURNET & BUG LIGHTS INC — $9,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureDUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $9,000 · EnvironmentTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC — $15,000 · HealthCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$298,188Other$217,000Arts & Culture$26,000Environment$21,000Human Services$15,000Health$15,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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

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 Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc38% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc5% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc5% of income from government
  • Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc3% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc1% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc?

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.

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 16 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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