· Public charity
The Clara Lionel Foundation
Clf invests in climate solutions in the caribbean & united states and helps communities prepare for and withstand natural disasters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $1,425,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,232,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,807,629 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $425k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND | $500,000 |
| GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN | $500,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $200,000 |
| NDN COLLECTIVE INC | $150,000 |
| NATIVE RENEWABLES | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $1.7M to organizations and $93k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS · EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SUSTAINABILITY · GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: BLOCK FARM TRAINING AND EVALUATION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +33%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $1.4M · revenue ×11
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue -89%
- TMTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -23%
- CPCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.4M · revenue +9% · 32% of their budget
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Resolve Uganda Incorporated. 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 28 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 136 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 CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds POLICING EQUITY ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds La Casa De Don Pedro Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gofundmeorg · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Clara Lionel 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.
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Project Medishare for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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