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John and Mary Kemp Clarke 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.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$284k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$18k0%
FY20232$15k50%
FY20228$12k63%
FY20214$10k50%
FY20206$6kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$26kEducation$12kFood & Nutrition$6kReligion$5kRecreation & Sports$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kHousing & Shelter$1kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
PA
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plymouth Place Inc$25,00020%
Glenhagen Farm Retreat$12,00055%
All Faiths Food Bank Inc$5,70020%
Buhl Park Corporation$3,25010%
Lead Srq$2,5001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,10010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,10010%
St Leonard's Ministries$1,00010%
Pure Water for the World Inc$1,00010%
Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc$75010%
Presbyterian Association of Chautauqua Ny Inc$50010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlymouth Place Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlenhagen Farm Retreat: $12,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $5,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuhl Park Corporation: $3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPure Water for the World Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Association of Chautauqua Ny Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 10.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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.

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About John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation

How much does John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation give?
John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $17,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Plymouth Place Inc ($25k), Glenhagen Farm Retreat ($12k), All Faiths Food Bank Inc ($6k).
Does John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John and Mary Kemp Clarke 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 John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation based?
John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation is based in IL.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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