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The Clausen Family 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 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 · $105k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER | $100,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET | $100,000 |
| MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $40,000 |
| GLENBROOK COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FCFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $665k · revenue +273%
- NMNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC7× · 2017–2024 · $566k · revenue +9%
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION7× · 2018–2024 · $472k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- OHOUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -84%
- SJST JOHNS CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +47%
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide low income elderly housing.
We seek to improve the quality of life for people living with mental health conditions, their families, and their caregivers. we work to ensure that all people impacted by a mental health condition receive the support they need when they…
The mission of northshore health centers is to provide the most comprehensive and quality healthcare, without exclusion, to everyone, every time.
The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.
The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.
Nassau suffolk services for the autistic (nssa) offers hope to people with autism and their families by providing high quality life-long support through services which enable people with autism to function better in everday life. nssa…
Nantucket lighthouse school education calls forth inherent social, intellectual, and moral wisdom and prepares each child to lead a responsible and joyful life.
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairwinds-Nantucket's Counseling Center and the most unlike its peers is Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescueinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Light School ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop ↗
- Who funds LU'S LABS LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUEINC ↗
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: Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Bierly Boasberg Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Clausen Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bennington College Corporation — 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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