Massachusetts · Private foundation
Roger L Clifton 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.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $678k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Roger L Clifton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $35k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $29k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $34k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $35k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $29k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $25k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Book Festival Inc | $19,150 | 7 | 1% |
| World Computer Exchange Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hands in Outreach Inc | $6,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Westport Fair Inc | $2,800 | 7 | 4% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stark Mountain Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gateway Babe Ruth League Inc | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roger L Clifton Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Roger L Clifton Foundation
- How much does Roger L Clifton Foundation give?
- Roger L Clifton Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $35,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Roger L Clifton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Roger L Clifton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boston Book Festival Inc ($19k), World Computer Exchange Inc ($13k), Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc ($9k).
- Does Roger L Clifton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roger L Clifton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Roger L Clifton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Roger L Clifton Foundation based?
- Roger L Clifton Foundation is based in MA.
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