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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.

$555k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.0MHuman Services$895kAnimals$343kEducation$302kArts & Culture$275kYouth Development$50kReligion$15k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER$100,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET$100,000
NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC$50,000
MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC$50,000
NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC$50,000
NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY$40,000
NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL$40,000
GLENBROOK COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $115k → 6%DIAKON LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $50k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC: $50k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $10k → 11%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $100k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $50k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC: $45k → 14%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $100k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $50k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC: $45k → 14%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $75k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $40k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC: $35k → 14%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $75k → 8%THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET: $100k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $34k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC: $25k → 14%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $75k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $15k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $37k → 17%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $75k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $75k → 6%NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL: $15k → 10%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $40k → 8%FAIRWINDS - NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $75k → 6%NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $15k → 8%THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET: $50k → 6%THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET: $50k → 6%OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC: $50k → 6%GLENBROOK COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL: $25k → 8%WHITE HERON THEATRE COMPANY: $40k → 6%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH NORWOOD PARISH: $15k → 8%WHITE HERON THEATRE COMPANY: $35k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $103k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $75k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $50k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $50k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 9 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$2.8M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $665k · revenue +273%
  • NM
    NAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $566k · revenue +9%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $472k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • OH
    OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -84%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FM
    Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshopgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +125%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
2
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

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3
National Alliance On Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc

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…

Health
4
Northshore Health Centers Inc

The mission of northshore health centers is to provide the most comprehensive and quality healthcare, without exclusion, to everyone, every time.

Health
5
Nami Rhode Island

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…

Health
6
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
7
North Shore Elder Services Inc

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.

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8
Nassau Suffolk Services for the Autistic Inc

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…

Health
9
Nantucket Lighthouse School Inc

Nantucket lighthouse school education calls forth inherent social, intellectual, and moral wisdom and prepares each child to lead a responsible and joyful life.

Education
10
National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter Inc

The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.

Philanthropy
11
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

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…

Health
12
Nantucket Historical Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairwinds-Nantucket's Counseling Center; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $665,000 · HealthFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTERNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC: $565,600 · HealthNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INCNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $472,250 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEA…Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $200,000 · OtherMary's Center for Maternal …GLENBROOK COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $338,000 · AnimalsNANTUCKET SAF…Northern Light School: $256,500 · EducationNorthern L…Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $10,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $10,000 · EducationTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE WO…WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HERO…OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$1,230,600Other$717,250Animals$338,000Education$276,500Arts & Culture$275,000Youth Development$50,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $665,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC: $565,600 over 7y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $472,250 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $338,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNorthern Light School: $256,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC: $200,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY: $75,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Nantucket Golf Club F…Community Foundation …Bierly Boasberg Found…Greater Washington Co…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Nantucket Golf Club Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clausen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clausen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Clausen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clausen Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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