· Private foundation
Lippard-Clawiter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF BIG SANDY | $65,000 |
| FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOC | $53,986 |
| GERALDINE SWIMMING POOL ASSOCIATION | $35,750 |
| CITY OF FORT BENTON | $30,750 |
| SUNRISE BLUFF ESTATES | $20,000 |
| LOMA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| HIGHWOOD RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| RIVER & PLAINS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| CHOUTEAU COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE | $15,000 |
| THE GOLDEN AGE CENTER | $15,000 |
| BIG SANDY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $14,633 |
| BIG SANDY ROTARY CLUB | $13,500 |
| GFWC FORT BENTON'S WOMAN'S CLUB INC | $12,000 |
| HIGHWOOD COMMERCIAL CLUB | $11,727 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
54 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FBFORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $788k · revenue +9% · 53% of their budget
- RARIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue ×11
- GCGERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +169% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- BSBIG SANDY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $13k
- FBFORT BENTON COMMUNITY SCALEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FBFORT BENTON FFA ALUMNIone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide medical and fire services to the citizens of sergeant bluff, iowa.
Rural fire protection
Operation of seniors' center in city of thief river falls
To provide food to those in need in rural deer lodge, mt.
Senior citizen center
Providing meals and activities for senior citizens
Provide a gathering place for area seniors to gather and socialize. Includes serving a weekly meal.
To manage a historical museum in southeast montana that preserves the history of the battle of the little bighorn.
Provide affordable housing for low incom
To promote the bowdon community and it's assets.
The mission of this organization is to aid and assist senior citizens and provide for them a better quality of life.
Establish and operate a senior citizens center for beatrice and gage county nebraska
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department and the most unlike its peers is Destination Fort Benton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 26% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE GERALDINE HISTORICAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds RIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN AGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE BLUFF ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOUTEAU COUNTY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation · Tordik Wildlife Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lippard-Clawiter Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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