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The Clark Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $6.1M
- $250k+30 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Clark Foundation Scholarship Program | $3,759,322 |
| Cooperstown Fire Department | $1,500,000 |
| The Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home | $1,500,000 |
| Fenimore Art Museum | $870,000 |
| Goddard Riverside Community Center | $475,000 |
| New Visions for Public Schools | $450,000 |
| Uncommon Schools Inc | $450,000 |
| New York City Charter School Center | $400,000 |
| City Harvest Inc | $400,000 |
| Bowery Residents' Committee Inc | $325,000 |
| East Side House Settlement | $300,000 |
| The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital | $300,000 |
| Women In Need Inc | $300,000 |
| College for Every StudentBrilliant Pathways | $300,000 |
| Fenimore Farm & Country Village | $280,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $33.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- CWCLARA WELCH THANKSGIVING HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +31% · 76% of their budget
- TMThe Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +45%
CITY HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Court Innovationone grant, 2021 · $170k
GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +10%- OFOPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +1%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 125 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 CLARA WELCH THANKSGIVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR EVERY STUDENT INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
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: Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · United Way of New York City · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Tiger 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 Clark 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.
- The Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 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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