· Private foundation
Lori and Steve Clinkinbeard 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, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washburn University | $10,000 |
| Emporia State University | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| United Way | $5,000 |
| American Red Cross | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,500 |
| Silverbacks | $1,500 |
| St Jude | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Topeka Rescue Mission | $1,000 |
| Harvester | $1,000 |
| Nicklaus Childrens Hospital | $1,000 |
| Midland Care | $500 |
| Ks Children Service League | $500 |
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 (FY25–25, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +44%
- CFCAPPER FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +25%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $500 · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- MCMary's Choiceone grant, 2024 · $2k
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Our mission is to provide funding for cancer research at siteman cancer center and siteman kids at st. louis children's hospital through our annual cycle challenge. it is our hope that research funded by pedal the cause will ultimately…
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
How this is measured
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 38 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 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds HERMANSKY PUDLAK SYNDROME NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KANSAS SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lori and Steve Clinkinbeard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lori and Steve Clinkinbeard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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