New York · Private foundation
The Clark Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $22M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2024
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,759,322
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 95
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $454M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 2% of the organizations The Clark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 79 | $21M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $22M | 2% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $23M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $23M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $20M | 1% |
| FY2019 | 95 | $23M | 2% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $22M | 5% |
| FY2017 | 95 | $23M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home Inc | $10,400,000 | 8 | 76% |
| The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital | $7,120,141 | 8 | 1% |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | $6,400,000 | 3 | 22% |
| City Harvest Inc | $4,025,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Uncommon Schools Inc | $3,500,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Fenimore Art Museum | $3,311,667 | 8 | 9% |
| New Visions for Public Schools Inc | $3,285,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Goddard Riverside Community Center | $3,275,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Good Shepherd Services | $2,800,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bowery Residents Committee Inc | $2,558,333 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($39M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Clark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Clark Foundation
- How much does The Clark Foundation give?
- The Clark Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $21,507,672 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Clark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Human Services (24%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Clark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home Inc ($10M), The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ($7.1M), National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ($6.4M).
- Does The Clark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Clark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is The Clark Foundation based?
- The Clark Foundation is based in NY.
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