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Cloverfields Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $463k
- $250k+8 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $1,005,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $762,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS - DOUGHERTY COLLEGE | $750,000 |
| MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY | $650,000 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC | $500,000 |
| LEO C BYRNE RESIDENCE FUND | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (DONOR ADVISED FUND) | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| DELASALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NORTHERN STAR SCOUTING | $60,000 |
| BASILICA OF ST MARY'S | $53,000 |
| AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST OLAF CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| CONSTELLATION FUND | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 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; $829k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $6.5M · revenue +47%- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +58%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas4× · 2017–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CTCHILDREN'S THEATERone grant, 2020 · $340k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (COVID-19 - DR JACOB TOLAR)one grant, 2020 · $250k
- NDNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +65%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 123 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISEFRENCH HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · GHR Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Head Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cloverfields Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cloverfields Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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