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The Armstrong-Clark Foundation

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.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$106kPhilanthropy$90kRecreation & Sports$77kEducation$65kHealth$57kYouth Development$57kHuman Services$37kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$18,905
ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
THE FIRST TEE$14,250
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ROSWELL SPECIAL OLYMPICS$10,000
ROSWELL MUSEUM ART CENTER FOUNDAT$10,000
SIDNEY GUTIERREZ SCHOOL$9,068
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHAVES COUNTY$5,000
ASSURANCE HOME$2,141
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SIDNEY GUTIERREZ FOUNDATION: $75k → 20%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 14%ROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 20%ROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $18k → 20%ROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16k → 20%UNITED WAY OF CHAVES COUNTY: $15k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $14k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 20%ROSWELL MUSEUM ART CENTER FOUNDAT: $10k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 20%ROSWELL SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $10k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $10k → 20%DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $8k → 20%CHAVES COUNTY CASA: $7k → 20%CHAVES COUNTY CASA: $6k → 20%DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $6k → 20%CHAVES COUNTY CASA: $6k → 20%THE ROSWELL REFUGE: $6k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $5k → 20%ROSWELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 20%CHAVES COUNTY CASA: $5k → 20%MINIATURES CURIOUS COLLECTIONS MU: $5k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $5k → 20%NEVERLAND THEATRE COMPANY: $4k → 20%THE FIRST TEE: $4k → 20%REINS FOR LIFE: $10k → 20%THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF ROSWELL: $25k → 20%BOYS GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 20%TOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 20%TOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 20%SIDNEY GUTIERREZ SCHOOL: $9k → 20%BOYS GIRLS CLUB: $8k → 20%BOYS GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 20%TABOSA DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$475k · 12 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$475k
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-6%

Still filing today

25%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

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

  • RS
    Roswell Symphony Orchestra Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +3%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHAVES COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +7%
  • TD
    TOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SG
    SIDNEY GUTIERREZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF ROSWELL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CHAVES COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -60%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assoc Inc

El paso symphony orchestra association, inc. (association) is a nonprofit corporation. its purpose is to sponsor a symphony orchestra while performing public concerts in the city of el paso, texas, and to provide significant cultural and…

Arts & Culture
2
Roswell Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic development, business retention, and roswell as a place to retire and live.

3
Roswell Refuge for Battered Adults

To provide a safe haven for victims of domestic violence in chaves county new mexico. the refuge provides resources for life skills and other services.

4
Roswell High School Band Boosters Association

RHSBBA provides support services for the student's of Roswell High School's music education experience.

Arts & Culture
5
Taos School of Music Inc

Chamber music education for conservatory level musicians.

Arts & Culture
6
Roswell Youth Soccer Association

Rysa provides a platform for over 750 youth to participate in youth soccer activities.

7
San Juan Symphony

The San Juan Symphony is an innovative regional orchestra that contributes to the cultural enrichment of the diverse communities of the Four Corners area with inspiring live performances and creative, collaborative efforts.

8
Pecos Valley Jazz and Arts Festival

The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to celebrate the arts in the pecos valley, increase positive community relationships, and to educate both young and old alike in the musical traditions of america.

Arts & Culture
9
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture
10
Ensuenos Y Los Angelitos Dev

To provide quality, individualized services, birth through life, children with special needs, adults with intellectual and / or developmental disabilities and their families by a specialized team of professionals.

Human Services
11
The Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc

To present, promote, encourage, and advance musical education and enjoyment of orchestra music to the citizens of austin and central texas.

Arts & Culture
12
Pueblo Symphony Association Inc

To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Chaves County and the most unlike its peers is Mainstreet Roswell 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SIDNEY GUTIERREZ FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherSIDNEY GUTIERREZ FOUNDATIONTHE FIRST TEE — $66,500 · OtherTHE FIRST TEEIndividual grant recipient — $66,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $58,965 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — $55,671 · OtherROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS — $31,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERSTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF ROSWELL — $25,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB — $23,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Other+12 more — $81,449 · Other+12 moreRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc — $69,000 · Arts & CultureRoswell Sympho…NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SYMPH…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHAVES COUNTY INC — $34,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $1,000 · Community ImprovementTOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $20,000 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF CHAVES COUNTY — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$505,085Arts & Culture$84,000Community Improvement$35,500Employment$20,000Philanthropy$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc — $69,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHAVES COUNTY INC — $34,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetTOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHAVES COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetREINS FOR LIFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetASSURANCE HOME INC — $2,141 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINSTREET ROSWELL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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 Roswell Symphony Orchestra Inc
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHAVES COUNTY INC
  • Who funds TOBOSA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHAVES COUNTY
  • Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC
  • Who funds REINS FOR LIFE INC
  • Who funds ASSURANCE HOME INC
  • Who funds MAINSTREET ROSWELL 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.

Miller Family FoundationNM15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Miller Family Foundation · 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 The Armstrong-Clark 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Armstrong-Clark Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Armstrong-Clark Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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