· Private foundation
The Clare Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE BROTHERS | $25,000 |
| PROVIDENCE-ST MEL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
| PAT MAC'S PACK | $6,000 |
| NEST COMMUNITY SHELTER | $5,000 |
| MAPLE MORGAN PARK FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| BEVERLY AREA PLANNING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY | $5,000 |
| 19TH WARD YOUTH AND COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The National Public Housing Museum4× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +72%- BABeverly Arts Center of Chicago3× · 2017–2019 · $69k · revenue +28%
- TATHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- PSPROVIDENCE ST MEL'S HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CTCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +13%
- MSMARILLAC SOCIAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
The Beverly Area Arts Alliance (The Alliance) cultivates collaboration between artists and community members to foster Beverly/Morgan Park as a diverse hub of culture and creativity on Chicago's far Southside and a vibrant place to live…
The mission of this organization is to create partnerships that produce intellectual and economic wealth in the African-American community.
The mission of the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago is to collectively advance Black excellence in the work of the Black arts and culture sector.
Beyond Hunger was founded in 1978 to provide direct hunger relief services and harness the power of communities to end hunger through collective impact. During the year, with repeat visits 67,000 individuals were served across all…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.
Neighborhood food pantries is organized exclusively for the charitable purpose of providing food and financial relief for the underprivileged.
Heaven Gallery is a multi-disciplinary healing art space that provides holistic programming to elevate artists and connect Chicago communities. The gallery hosts art exhibitions, artist talks, House Music dance events, and classical…
Better Streets Chicago champions universal mobility by challenging harmful transportation infrastructure and policies.
To provide outreach services and resources
To provide help to the homeless and nearly homeless
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds Beverly Arts Center of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Hales Franciscan High School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Beverly Area Planning Association ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds Pat Mac's Pack Inc ↗
- Who funds A NEW DIRECTION BEVERLY MORGAN PARK ↗
- Who funds THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds BURST INTO BOOKS ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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