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Elizabeth C Clark 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.

$369k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Elizabeth C Clark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$369k0%
FY202422$318k18%
FY202321$313k0%
FY202222$334k9%
FY202122$365k9%
FY202022$352k14%
FY201919$360k0%
FY201819$340k16%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$2.9MPhilanthropy$74kCrime & Legal$70kHuman Services$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shenandoah Valley Equine Rescue Network$250,000867%
Humane Society of Warren County Inc$240,00094%
The Humane Society of Shenandoah County Virginia Inc$230,000923%
Clarke County Humane Foundation$178,000967%
Dakota's Dream Animal Rescueinc$135,000916%
Mayberry 4 Paws$84,00096%
Frederick County Winchester City Law Enforcement Foundation$70,0005n/a
Surry Animal Rescue$69,000913%
Animal Welfare League of Claiborne County Inc$55,0008n/a
Rural Dog Rescue$53,00066%
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All grantees of Elizabeth C Clark Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shenandoah Valley Equine Rescue Network$250,000867%
Humane Society of Warren County Inc$240,00094%
The Humane Society of Shenandoah County Virginia Inc$230,000923%
Clarke County Humane Foundation$178,000967%
Dakota's Dream Animal Rescueinc$135,000916%
Mayberry 4 Paws$84,00096%
Frederick County Winchester City Law Enforcement Foundation$70,0005n/a
Surry Animal Rescue$69,000913%
Animal Welfare League of Claiborne County Inc$55,0008n/a
Rural Dog Rescue$53,00066%
Animal Welfare Society of Jefferson County$50,00028%
Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue Inc$50,00061%
Magnolia Gordon Setter Club Rescue$49,5007n/a
The Oak Ridge Humane Society Inc$49,0008n/a
Leesburg Veterinary Hospital Benevolent Foundation Inc$45,0002n/a
Westie Rescue Inc$28,000481%
Warrior Canine Connection Inc$24,00030%
Louisa Humane Society$23,00027%
Millwood Thoroughbred Rescue & Adoption Foundation$12,0002n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Elizabeth C Clark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShenandoah Valley Equine Rescue Network: $250,000 over 8y, 67% of budgetHumane Society of Warren County Inc: $240,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetThe Humane Society of Shenandoah County Virginia Inc: $230,000 over 9y, 23% of budgetClarke County Humane Foundation: $178,000 over 9y, 67% of budgetDakota's Dream Animal Rescueinc: $135,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetMayberry 4 Paws: $84,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetSurry Animal Rescue: $69,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetRural Dog Rescue: $53,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetAnimal Welfare Society of Jefferson County: $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetShenandoah Shepherd Rescue Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWestie Rescue Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetWarrior Canine Connection Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLouisa Humane Society: $23,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Elizabeth C Clark Foundation

How much does Elizabeth C Clark Foundation give?
Elizabeth C Clark Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $369,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Elizabeth C Clark Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (94%), Philanthropy (2%), Crime & Legal (2%).
Who are Elizabeth C Clark Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shenandoah Valley Equine Rescue Network ($250k), Humane Society of Warren County Inc ($240k), The Humane Society of Shenandoah County Virginia Inc ($230k).
Does Elizabeth C Clark Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elizabeth C Clark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth C Clark Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, Network for Good, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Elizabeth C Clark Foundation based?
Elizabeth C Clark Foundation is based in VA.

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 32 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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