· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF HARVARD SWIMMING | $6,000 |
| GNOME SURF | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO - TORERO STUDENT SUPPORT FUND | $5,000 |
| BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL (TRIPP FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND) | $3,000 |
| WORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE | $2,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR FICTION | $1,500 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| IRAIVAN TEMPLE (SAN MARGA) | $1,000 |
| HANDS IN OUTREACH | $500 |
| ALLEN'S NECK FRIENDS MEETING | $500 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| WESTPORT FAIR | $500 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BBBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +108%
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +89%- DEDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +168%
Funded once
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +203%- MCMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +648%
- TRTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The associates of the boston public library is an independent nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting the historic, literary, and artistic treasures of the boston public library through targeted grantmaking and cultural events. by…
The mission of the salem athenaeum is to preserve and excite the literary and cultural passions of the north shore.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…
The mission of the library is to serve to the community, cultivate knowledge, promote curiosity, and inspire lifelong learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Katie Brown Educational Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 44 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 BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds WORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Surf Therapy Organization ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds TRYON CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT BABE RUTH LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC ↗
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: 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
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 Roger L Clifton 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated — 29% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Your Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
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.