New York · 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Clara Lionel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $12M | 87% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $6.5M | 91% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $28M | 90% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $2.1M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $1.2M | 82% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Popular Democracy Inc | $5,625,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles | $2,975,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $1,531,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Takeaction Mn Education Fund | $1,500,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | $1,435,000 | 1 | 32% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $1,417,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $1,328,175 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jed Foundation | $1,275,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Camfed USA Foundation | $1,208,451 | 4 | 8% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Clara Lionel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Clara Lionel Foundation
- How much does The Clara Lionel Foundation give?
- The Clara Lionel Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $1,425,000, out of $3,232,629 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Clara Lionel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (22%), Environment (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Clara Lionel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Popular Democracy Inc ($5.6M), Global Fund for Women Inc ($3.0M), The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles ($3.0M).
- Does The Clara Lionel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Clara Lionel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Gofundmeorg, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Clara Lionel Foundation based?
- The Clara Lionel Foundation is based in NY.
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