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Clymer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$57kHuman Services$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kArts & Culture$11kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$12,000
T&E CARE$10,000
VILLA MARIA ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL$10,000
MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$6,000
THE CENTER$5,000
KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER$2,000
MONTANA HOPE PROJECT$1,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $2k → 7%KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 8 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$127k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-24%

Still filing today

63%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MP
    MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +28%
  • BV
    BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +29%
  • KC
    KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER
    2× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MF
    MONTANA FIREFIGHTER FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -98%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -24%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ROCKIES
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

1
Mineral Point Fire Department Inc

To provide top-notch fire, rescue, and all hazard mitigation to all residents and all visitors passing through our response area. this area is approximately 155 square miles out of one station and covers one city and six townships. the…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
3
Montana Medical Association

To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.

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4
Missoula International School

Missoula international school inspires principled global citizens and lifelong learners through a challenging bilingual education from preschool to eighth grade.

Education
5
World Museum of Mining

None

Arts & Culture
6
Montana Free Press

Our mission: our mission is to produce in-depth public service journalism coveringstate and community issues relevant to montanans.our vision: all montanans have access to high-quality journalism that createspositive change and helps move…

Arts & Culture
7
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection, ambulance services, and mutual aid to rural communities located in north central montana. the vfd is the first responder for these operations, serving approximately 2,000 residents in 1,400 square mile area.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Montana Rural Water Systems Inc

To provide quality services for all water systems, thereby enabling them to produce the best possible product with their available resources.

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9
Montana Dental Association

To represent the interests of the members of the dental profession and promote the art and science of dentistry to improve the health of montanans.

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10
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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12
Mercersburg Montgomery Peters & Warren Volunteer Fire and Ambulance

Mmp&w volunteer fire and ambulance company provides fire, rescue, and ambulance service to the citizens of mercersburg and the three surrounding rural townshiops in pennsylvania. it serves all the citizens in a 157 square mile first due…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County; the most unlike its peers is Montana Firefighter Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLA MARIA ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherVILLA MARIA ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOLT&E CARE: $30,000 · OtherT&E CARETHE CENTER: $20,000 · OtherTHE CENTERMONTANA FIREFIGHTER FUND: $10,000 · OtherMONTANA FIREFIGHTER FUNDMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC: $6,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INCMUSEUM OF ROCKIES: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $16,000 · EducationMALVERN PREP…BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBERGHEIM …KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesMONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC: $2,500 · HealthHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$112,000Education$16,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,000Human Services$3,000Health$2,500Housing & Shelter$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA FIREFIGHTER FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINING AND MECHANICAL INSTITUTE MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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