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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Inc at a glance

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Inc

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
123
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$4.6MPhilanthropy$2.5MCivil Rights$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.7MEducation$1.6MFood & Nutrition$989kCrime & Legal$951kHuman Services$862kOther$0
02FY2024 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k71 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $2.5M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INTERFAITH CENTER OF NY$82,500
CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER$82,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE$82,500
JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA$82,500
BEND THE ARC$82,500
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE$82,500
THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT$82,500
BUILDING MOVEMENT PROJECT$82,500
INSTITUTE FOR STATE & LOCAL GOVERNANCE$82,500
COMMUNITY FOOD FUNDERSNORTH STAR FUND$82,500
ROCKWOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$82,500
UNIVERSAL PARTNERSHIP$80,000
UNIVERSAL PARTNERSHIP$80,000
NON PROFIT NEW YORK$75,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK$55,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOPEKA JUMP: $100 → 14%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $83k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $83k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $83k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $83k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $55k → 16%THE EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MEKONG INC: $10k → 28%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $15k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $10k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $10k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $3k → 16%FORESTDALE: $18k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $3k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $1k → 20%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $83k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $55k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $55k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK CITY: $55k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $55k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $20k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK CITY: $10k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $10k → 17%GOOD SHEPHARD SERVICES: $64k → 17%NYC MESH: $86k → 17%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 77 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
140

Total granted

$14M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

60%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $928k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RL
    Rockwood Leadership Institute
    5× · 2020–2024 · $468k · revenue +54%
  • JI
    JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $468k · revenue +125%
  • INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $423k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INTERFAITH CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $103k
  • NY
    NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $103k · revenue -6%
  • LU
    LET US BREATHE FUND (NORTH STAR FUND)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
2
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation

To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.

Civil Rights
5
Advocacy Institute Inc

Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.

Civil Rights
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Nycxd Inc

Unite, advance, and strengthen nyc's diverse and global design community for the sake of marketing and fast description.

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10
Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture

Van alen institute helps create equitable cities through community-led inclusive design.

Arts & Culture
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Restoreher Usamerica 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

112 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. 112 of the 247 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/112
Grantees still filing
58/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOOD FUNDERSNORTH STAR FUND: $757,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD FUNDERSNORTH STAR FUNDBEND THE ARC: $482,500 · OtherJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $467,500 · Other+141 more: $10,782,067 · Other+141 moreTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN: $379,000 · EducationTHE FORUM FO…THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC: $350,000 · EducationTHE PARTNERS…NEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC: $330,000 · EducationNEW AMERICAN…COOP Careers Inc: $255,000 · EducationCOOP Careers…EDUCATION PIONEERS: $255,000 · EducationEDUCATION PI…EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $170,000 · EducationEDUCATION RE…LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $150,000 · EducationLITERACY ASS…+8 more: $260,000 · Education+8 moreCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $510,500 · Community ImprovementChange Elemental: $330,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE: $310,000 · Community ImprovementPROINSPIRE: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $60,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $45,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $422,500 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNYC MESH: $86,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $64,000 · Human Services+4 more: $61,750 · Human ServicesCORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $531,500 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $310,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsThe Laundromat Project Inc: $472,600 · Arts & CultureBLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureEUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $70,000 · Arts & CultureRockwood Leadership Institute: $467,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $70,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$12,489,567Education$2,149,000Community Improvement$1,420,500Human Services$1,096,750Civil Rights$866,500Arts & Culture$772,600Philanthropy$712,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $531,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $510,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $472,600 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute: $467,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $467,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $422,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN: $379,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $355,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC: $350,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetNEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC: $330,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetChange Elemental: $330,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $315,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $315,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $310,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc: $255,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $255,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $255,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC: $180,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $180,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $180,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $166,750 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: $148,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $130,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNONPROFIT NEW YORK INC: $127,160 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $101,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROINSPIRE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNYC MESH: $86,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $64,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFIERCE: $60,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rockwood Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
  • Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Change Elemental ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COOP Careers Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
  • Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC ↗

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.

New York Women's Foun…The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…Surdna Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Brooklyn Community Fo…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Pinkerton FoundationRobin Hood FoundationNorth Star Fund IncNew York Foundation
New York Women's Foundation IncNY47.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Women's Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · North Star Fund Inc · New York Foundation

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 Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 247 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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