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John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLYMOUTH PLACE$12,500
GLENHAGEN FARM RETREAT$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%PLYMOUTH PLACE: $13k → 14%PLYMOUTH PLACE: $13k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
PA
TN
DC
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 4 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$47k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+46%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PP
    PLYMOUTH PLACE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • GF
    GLENHAGEN FARM RETREAT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +18%
  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BP
    BUHL PARK CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • LS
    LEAD SRQ
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +23%
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
Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Inc

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Retreat House welcomes people of all faiths to come away and rest in God. We offer hospitality, a peaceful setting with a supportive environment for reflection, and programs for spiritual renewal.

Religion
2
Catholic Residential Services Inc Dba Benedictine Living Communities of Wi

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

Human Services
3
St Anne Home

St. anne home is a ministry of the felician sisters of north america dedicated to the continued healing mission of jesus christ by providing a continuum of care and supportive services to adults, their families, and their caregivers. st.…

Health
4
Bethany Lutheran Homes Inc

Bethany lutheran homes, inc. (the organization) is a benevolent continuum of care retirement community comprised of numerous facilities and community outreach programs designed to meet the care needs of the elderly and disabled in the la…

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5
Beverwyck Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. beverwyck is a member of st. peter's health partners and trinity…

Housing & Shelter
6
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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7
Jw House

Jw house keeps families together during medical crisis by offering a welcoming home just steps away from the hospital, providing a caring and compassionate environment that inspires hope.

Health
8
The Village At Mercy Creek

The Mission of The Villas at Mercy Creek is to Celebrate Life and Serve with Joy.

Housing & Shelter
9
Lourdes Assisted Living Corporation

Lourdes senior community, inspired by the gospel of jesus and sponsored by the dominican sisters of peace, provides a broad continuum of care for seniors and their families. all who administer at lourdes honor the uniqueness of each person…

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10
Presbyterian Homes in the Presbytery of Lake Erie

To be a compassionate, inclusive faith-inspired network of communities and services committed to enhancing the quality of life of older adults.Presbyterian Homes is a part of the Presbyterian SeniorCare network of facilities.

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11
Franciscan Communities Inc

The mission of franciscan communities inc. ("franciscan communities") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).

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12
White Haven Memorial Parks Inc

To provide for the cremation and disposition or burial of deceased human remains in either a grave or mausoleum. White Haven Memorial Parks, Inc. is open to all religions and faiths.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is All Faiths Food Bank Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLYMOUTH PLACE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPLYMOUTH PLACE INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesRIVERSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE PRESBYTERIAN C…BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $3,250 · OtherBUHL PARK CORPORATIONLEAD SRQ: $2,500 · OtherLEAD SRQPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC: $1,000 · OtherPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD…GREAT LAKES WARRIOR SAILING PROGRAM: $1,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES WARRIOR SAIL…YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATIONGLENHAGEN FARM RETREAT: $12,000 · EducationGLENHAGEN FARM RETREATPRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAUTAUQUA NY INC: $500 · EducationALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $5,700 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS…St Leonard's Ministries: $1,000 · ReligionGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc: $750 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$27,200Other$13,250Education$12,500Food & Nutrition$5,700Religion$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$750

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

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
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.

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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 John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Mary Kemp Clarke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 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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