· Private foundation
Johnson and Louise H Clark Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $41,312 |
| THE NUNOA PROJECT | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN WHITEWATER | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITAS | $3,771 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $3,443 |
| OUR RESCUE | $3,442 |
| NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION DENVER CELIACS | $3,000 |
| MEXICAN-AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND | $2,295 |
| RAZOM INC | $2,295 |
| UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL | $2,295 |
| MARIPOSA MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $2,219 |
| SOUTH SKYLINE FIRESAFE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,521 |
| KQED | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,386 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 9% of Johnson and Louise H Clark Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 50%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AWAmerican Whitewater8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +44%
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +118%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- MAMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +60%
- RFREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +8%
- PDPEACE DIRECT INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -11%
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.
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The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
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How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 73 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.
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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: Analog Devices Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Johnson and Louise H Clark Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson and Louise H Clark Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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