How much does Clough Family Foundation give?

Clough Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $276,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Clough Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Animals (21%), Science & Tech (9%).

Who are Clough Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of the Mustangs ($103k), Sarah's Home Corporation ($97k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($82k).

Does Clough Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Clough Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Clough Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Good Day Foundation Inc.

Where is Clough Family Foundation based?

Clough Family Foundation is based in CO.

Clough Family Foundation

Clough Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Clough Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$276k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$400kAnimals$349kScience & Tech$147kHousing & Shelter$107kFood & Nutrition$104kArts & Culture$96kEducation$92kYouth Development$89kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $84k
$10k–50k16 grants · $192k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE MUSTANGS	$25,000
JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL SHELTER	$22,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$10,000
MIRACLE FLIGHTS	$10,000
JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL SHELTER	$10,000
A WAY OUT	$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$10,000
TRACK FORCE 1	$10,000
HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER	$10,000
DANIEL'S ACADEMY	$10,000
SARAH'S HOME	$10,000
SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$10,000
MIRACLE FLIGHTS	$10,000
HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+22%

Still filing today

67%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

SH
SARAH'S HOME CORPORATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +308%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +78%
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +57%

Funded once

IF
IHMC FLORIDA INSTITUE FOR HUMAN & MACHINE COGNITION
one grant, 2022 · $35k
DA
DANIEL'S ACADEMY PROJECT
one grant, 2022 · $15k
RS
RIFLE SENIOR CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $14k

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.

Colorado Horse Rescue

Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.

Animals

Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

Animals

Safe Harbor Lab Rescue

To rescue, provide a high level of compassionate care and successfully rehome stray, abandoned or surrendered labrador retrievers giving priority to those in colorado.

Animals

Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit

Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center

To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.

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Front Range Equine Rescue

To prevent the abuse and neglect of horses through rescue and education.

Animals

Save the Sea Turtles International Dba One Ocean Conservation

We empower communities around the globe to protect sea turtles, corals, sharks, and the vital marine species and ecosystems they call home through hands-on conservation, education, and sustainable solutions. our team leads reef and beach…

Animals

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

Utah Zoological Society

Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Colorado; the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$962,500Health$233,500Animals$131,000Housing & Shelter$97,000Human Services$75,000Philanthropy$74,000Arts & Culture$61,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Good Day Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The camps

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By state

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