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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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$12MEnvironment$8.3MHealth$6.6MInternational$4.5MCrime & Legal$3.2MEducation$2.9MHuman Services$2.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,425,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,232,629 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,807,629 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $425k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$200,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$500,000
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND$500,000
WINDWARD FUND$200,000
NDN COLLECTIVE INC$150,000
NATIVE RENEWABLES$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ECONOMIC STIMULUS FOR WORK AND ACTION: $45k → 8%ASIAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN ADVOCATES INC: $50k → 10%AFYA FOUNDATIONINC: $15k → 9%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT: $10k → 13%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 10%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300k → 16%LA CASA DE DON PEDRO: $484k → 16%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $150k → 13%NEWARK EMERGENCY SERV FOR FAMILIES INC: $50k → 16%TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $333k → 23%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $145k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $333k → 23%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $250k → 14%HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE: $35k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $300k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

Central America and the Caribbean$1.6M · 93% · 21 grants

Stated purpose: FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS · EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SUSTAINABILITY · GENERAL SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$93k · 5% · 3 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

Sub-Saharan Africa$38k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BLOCK FARM TRAINING AND EVALUATION

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 21 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
107

Total granted

$20M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +33%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.4M · revenue ×11
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue -89%
  • TM
    TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -23%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M · revenue +9% · 32% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
7
Accion International

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…

International
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
Counterpart International Inc

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…

International
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/129
Grantees still filing
81/129
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOME…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,417,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $1,208,451 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIO…DIRECT RELIEF: $1,029,973 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUND…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $500,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $495,000 · International+12 more: $1,771,566 · International+12 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $5,625,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPU…TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $1,500,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN E…CATALYST CALIFORNIA: $500,000 · Public BenefitCATALYST CALIFO…+1 more: $100,000 · Public BenefitPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,531,000 · HealthPARTNERS …THE JED FOUNDATION: $1,275,000 · HealthTHE JED F…CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $687,500 · HealthCHILD MIN…Rush University Medical Center: $500,000 · HealthRush Univ…AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthAMERICAN …METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $180,000 · HealthFOS FEMINISTA FUND: $165,000 · Health+4 more: $192,107 · HealthBLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE (TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION): $750,000 · OtherSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: $750,000 · OtherTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,125,000 · OtherWINDWARD FUND: $1,200,000 · OtherWINDWARD FUNDCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,435,000 · OtherCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION+72 more: $16,016,999 · Other+72 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $1,328,175 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $750,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $500,000 · EducationTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $480,000 · EducationMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $400,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $300,000 · EducationINROADS INC: $250,000 · EducationHAWAII WORKERS CENTER: $150,000 · Education+2 more: $87,000 · EducationTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $2,975,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT: $425,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $167,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $131,955 · PhilanthropyNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $1,150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $550,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $333,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $323,629 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $250,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $170,000 · Community Improvement
International$10,421,990Public Benefit$7,725,000Health$4,830,607Other$21,276,999Education$4,245,175Philanthropy$3,998,955Community Improvement$3,776,629

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $5,625,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $2,975,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,531,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $1,500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,435,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,417,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $1,328,175 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,275,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $1,208,451 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $1,150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,125,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,029,973 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $750,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $687,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $667,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $667,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $550,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK: $515,391 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $500,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $495,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc: $484,220 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $425,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT: $425,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFood Bank Council of Michigan Inc: $407,180 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $404,738 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $375,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $345,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $333,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $333,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $333,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $325,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $323,629 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…GofundmeorgTides FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…Silicon Valley Commun…Globalgiving Foundati…Rockefeller Philanthr…Surdna Foundation IncCommon Counsel Founda…Roy and Patricia Disn…WK Kellogg Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC28.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clara Lionel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clara Lionel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Clara Lionel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clara Lionel 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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