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Clifton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k43 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARITAS OF WACO | $21,000 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WACO CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY | $6,365 |
| THE GREATER WACO UNITED FUND FOUNDATION | $6,365 |
| VANGUARD FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE WACO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE WACO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE TEXAS TRIBUNE | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TSTC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC DEPT WS | $2,500 |
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, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- WFWACO FAMILY PRACTICE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +298%
Culver Educational Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +73%
DR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +481%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S AME CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $13k
- WCWaco Cultural Arts Festgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +26%
- CTCROSS TIES MINISTRIES--TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
The baylor oral health foundation was established to foster and support the activities and program of the texas a&m university college of dentistry (the college) to provide financial support for excellence at the college, and to advance…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 70 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 WACO FAMILY PRACTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds DR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WACO UNITED FUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Waco Cultural Arts Fest ↗
- Who funds FUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Baylor University · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · The McClane Brown Family Foundation · Magnolia Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Hobbs Foundation · Bowen Family 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 Clifton 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% 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.
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