· Private foundation
Clovelly Charitable Trust
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $13,500 |
| THE ENDANGERED LANGUAGE FUND | $8,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $6,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $4,900 |
| TRICKLE UP | $4,900 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $4,900 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $4,900 |
| WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $4,900 |
| NE CENTER & HOME FOR VETERANS | $4,900 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| BIKE WORKS SEATTLE | $1,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $10k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $33k · revenue +34%- ELENDANGERED LANGUAGE FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +22%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSTY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LLLENOX LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Education and Research
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED LANGUAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LENOX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clovelly Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clovelly Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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