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The Clare Rose Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$744k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.8MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$748kHealth$308kEducation$202kPhilanthropy$188kEnvironment$56kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $282k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $416k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLARE ROSE FOUNDATION CENTER FOR CREATIVE YOUTH DE$166,215
CENTER FOR HOPE AND STRENGTH INC$100,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SAN DIEGO$50,000
TRAUMA FOUNDATION$50,000
A REASON TO SURVIVE$50,000
LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER$45,000
VILLA MUSICA$45,000
THE DAVIDS HARP FOUNDATION INC$25,000
NATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC$25,000
THE AJA PROJECT$25,000
HIGHSTEPPERS DRILL TEAM INC$20,000
TRANSCENDANCE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT$20,000
ARTREACH$15,000
A STEP BEYOND$15,000
FERN STREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $43k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR HOPE AND STRENGTH INC: $100k → 11%LICENSE TO FREEDOM: $3k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $43k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 24 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
63

Total granted

$3.9M
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

96%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • CR
    Clare Rose Foundation Center for Creative Youth Development
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +42% · 73% of their budget
  • AR
    A Reason To Survive
    6× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +48%
  • GO
    Girls on the Run of San Diego
    6× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FL
    FIELDSTONE LEADERSHIP NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $178k · revenue +114%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • AY
    ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue -75%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arts Education Connection San Diego

Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…

Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Junior Theatre

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…

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3
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…

Arts & Culture
5
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Civic Youth Ballet

To provide the youth of san diego with an opportunity to study, understand, and appreciate, through education and participation, the art of ballet, and to enrich the cultural life of the community.

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7
Contra-Tiempo

Contra-tiempo is a bold, multilingual los angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audience to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual…

Arts & Culture
8
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
9
Blindspot Collective

To produce radically inclusive programming at the intersection of advocacy education and entertainment that cultivates and celebrates new work emerging artists diverse audiences and fresh ideas. Transformative theatre that amplifies…

Arts & Culture
10
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
11
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
12
Vanguard Culture

Vanguard Culture is a volunteer-powered, inclusive nonprofit dedicated to advancing San Diegos Creative Industries. We provide quality arts journalism, cutting edge events, professional development that create arts jobs, bring diverse…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fieldstone Leadership Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%14%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr10%9%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%37%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr10%3%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
14%
2,129/14,714

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 91 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Clare Rose Foundation Center for Creative Youth Development — $1,026,215 · Arts & CultureClare Rose Foundation Center for Creative Youth…A Reason To Survive — $460,000 · Arts & CultureA Reason To SurviveThe High Steppers Drill Team Inc — $97,500 · Arts & CultureA Step Beyond — $71,060 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $232,530 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCENTER FOR HOPE AND STRENGTH INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE A…ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $47,500 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN …CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA — $46,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMISTAD C…+1 more — $3,200 · Human ServicesGirls on the Run of San Diego — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the …DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION — $125,274 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HARP …KIDS INCLUDED TOGETHER — $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS INCLUDED…ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY — $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentACCESS YOUTH …NATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $241,800 · OtherNATIONAL GUILD …GET EMPOWERED TODAY — $115,700 · OtherGET EMPOWERED T…PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $47,500 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS F…PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MCLEAN HOSPITAL C — $25,000 · OtherLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $48,500 · OtherLIVING COAST DI…FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC — $42,500 · OtherFRIENDSHIP SHEL…Resounding Joy Inc — $32,636 · Other+50 more — $71,035 · Other+50 moreThe Trauma Foundation — $250,000 · PhilanthropyThe Trauma …FIELDSTONE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $178,000 · PhilanthropyFIELDSTONE …Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $22,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $17,500 · PhilanthropytranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project — $135,400 · EducationCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationTHE AJA PROJECT — $87,750 · International
Arts & Culture$1,887,305Human Services$696,700Youth Development$515,274Other$624,671Philanthropy$468,000Education$185,400International$87,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetClare Rose Foundation Center for Creative Youth Development — $1,026,215 over 4y, 73% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND STRENGTH INC — $600,000 over 6y, 70% of budgetA Reason To Survive — $460,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetGirls on the Run of San Diego — $300,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetThe Trauma Foundation — $250,000 over 5y, 79% of budgetNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $241,800 over 4y, 38% of budgettranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project — $135,400 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION — $125,274 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetThe High Steppers Drill Team Inc — $97,500 over 5y, 47% of budgetTHE AJA PROJECT — $87,750 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetA Step Beyond — $71,060 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetART OF ELAN — $54,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVILLA MUSICA — $48,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $48,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $47,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKIDS INCLUDED TOGETHER — $47,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA — $46,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY — $42,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC — $42,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $32,636 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFern Street Community Arts Inc — $26,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDisco Riot — $22,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $16,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIZCALLI ESCUELA DE LA RAZA — $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetARTREACH — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRock n Roll Camp for Girls San Diego — $15,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO — $7,530 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJason Mraz Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCalifornians for the Arts — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPlaywrights Project — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBocon Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSan Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGroundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek — $3,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOLANA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKaren Organization of San Diego — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLICENSE TO FREEDOM — $3,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPartnership for Children & Youth — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VILLAGE ARTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Conrad Prebys Fou…The San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…The Parker FoundationSamuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundSempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…The William Hall Tipp…David C Copley Founda…The Nordson Corporati…
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA60.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 Clare Rose 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Clare Rose Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Clare Rose Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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