· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY EQUINE RESCUE NETWORK | $35,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY ESTHER BOYD ANIMAL SHELTER | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHENANDOAH COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| SPCA OF WINCHESTER | $30,000 |
| LEESBURG VETERINARY HOSPITAL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WARREN COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| THE CLARKE COUNTY HUMANE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DAKOTA'S DREAM ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| RURAL DOG RESCUE | $15,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTYWINCHESTER LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOUISA HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| SHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| BRIGGS ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Elizabeth C Clark Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY EQUINE RESCUE NETWORK8× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +49% · 67% of their budget
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF WARREN COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +118%
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF CLAIBORNE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $8k
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF OAK RIDGE & ANDERSON COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Save animals in a county with no animal services
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
Rescuing rehabilitating and housing of abandoned and homeless dogs cats and small animals with the mission of finding them new forever homes
Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 SHENANDOAH VALLEY EQUINE RESCUE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WARREN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA'S DREAM ANIMAL RESCUEINC ↗
- Who funds Mayberry 4 Paws ↗
- Who funds SURRY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RURAL DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Leesburg Veterinary Hospital Benevolent Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTIE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Louisa Humane Society ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth C Clark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth C Clark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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