· Private foundation
The Clarke Family Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fairhill Partners | $3,000 |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| The Manor Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra | $1,200 |
| Artists Archives of Western Reserve | $800 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | $600 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank | $600 |
| XS Tennis and Education Foundation | $600 |
| Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad | $500 |
| Lakeview Cemetary Foundation | $500 |
| Trinity Episcopal Cathedral | $400 |
| Hillsdale College | $400 |
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPFAIRHILL PARTNERS5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +42%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +49%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IFInstitute for Humane Studiesone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue 0%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $300 · revenue +23%
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
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 20 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 FAIRHILL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds XS Tennis and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEREFORD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOC INC DBA MONKTON VOL EMERGENCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Clarke Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clarke Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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