· Private foundation
The C&K Clark Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UC | $10,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| UNI OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATIO | $8,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH | $5,500 |
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $5,000 |
| LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE OF FLORID | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDA | $5,000 |
| WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +59% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +31%- FSFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +32%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE PULMINOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NFNORTHWOOD FOOTBALL LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $2k
- TFTOYS FOR TOTSone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The guide dog foundation for the blind, inc. provides guide and service dogs free of charge to provide increased independence, enhanced mobility, and companionship to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disablities. the…
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Good dog harnesses the dog-human bond to ease human suffering & support learning w/ animal assisted intervention. we train, certify & field hundreds of dogs & their handlers annually, who help tens of thousands of people recover from…
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. perform unbiased independent nutrition research and…
Protection of animal rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Gamma Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vetoga. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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 65 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA XI DELTA FRATERNITY IOTA PSI CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA SIGMA TAU NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PATH OF CITRUS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The C&K Clark Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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