· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| WESTPORT FAIR | $500 |
| OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MCMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +517%
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +203%- TRTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Surf Therapy Organization ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT BABE RUTH LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTPORT LIBRARY 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger L Clifton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger L Clifton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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