How much does The Clear Fund give?

The Clear Fund reported 20 itemized grants totaling $49,442,847, out of $163,148,227 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Clear Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (91%), Human Services (3%), Science & Tech (2%).

Who are The Clear Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Against Malaria Foundation ($183M), New Incentives ($99M), Helen Keller International ($41M).

Does The Clear Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Clear Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Ventures Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gates Foundation.

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The Clear Fund

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$163M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Itemized grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 46%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $49M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $895,999
Largest grant, FY2024: $19,219,603
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 15; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $288M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The Clear Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationHealthSocial SciencePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	16	$48M	31%
FY2023	13	$67M	46%
FY2022	12	$97M	17%
FY2021	15	$121M	13%
FY2020	15	$53M	27%
FY2019	14	$17M	21%
FY2018	12	$15M	8%
FY2017	11	$21M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

International$406MHuman Services$16MScience & Tech$9.5MEducation$6.8MHealth$4.8MSocial Science$2.4MFood & Nutrition$920kEnvironment$404kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
The Against Malaria Foundation	$183,419,709	8	69%
New Incentives	$98,851,033	5	77%
Helen Keller International	$40,542,863	8	16%
Evidence Action	$33,081,872	8	29%
Alima USA Inc	$16,455,542	3	51%
Sightsavers Inc	$16,125,932	7	57%
Givedirectly Inc	$14,504,012	7	5%
The Imperial College Foundation Inc	$10,842,673	2	48%
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc	$10,709,877	2	2%
University of Chicago	$2,697,386	2	0%

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All grantees of The Clear Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Against Malaria Foundation	$183,419,709	8	69%
New Incentives	$98,851,033	5	77%
Helen Keller International	$40,542,863	8	16%
Evidence Action	$33,081,872	8	29%
Alima USA Inc	$16,455,542	3	51%
Sightsavers Inc	$16,125,932	7	57%
Givedirectly Inc	$14,504,012	7	5%
The Imperial College Foundation Inc	$10,842,673	2	48%
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc	$10,709,877	2	2%
University of Chicago	$2,697,386	2	0%
Rice Institute Inc	$2,423,199	1	n/a
One Acre Fund	$1,518,587	1	1%
Precision Development Inc	$1,096,678	4	11%
Dimagi Inc	$1,049,908	2	n/a
Results for Development Institute Inc	$1,006,445	1	2%
Miraclefeet	$909,936	2	5%
Regents of the University of California	$787,500	1	n/a
The End Fund Inc	$776,646	6	1%
Malengo Inc	$500,000	1	44%
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition	$405,402	5	0%
Id Insight Inc	$315,500	3	1%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc	$272,888	5	0%
Trustees of Tufts College	$203,796	1	0%
Blacksmith Institute Inc	$200,000	1	2%
Center for Global Development	$197,000	1	1%
International Rescue Committee INC	$150,000	1	0%
Living Goods	$143,451	5	0%
Project Healthy Children Inc	$131,430	5	3%
The Fistula Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
Spark Microgrants Inc	$73,740	2	0%
The Urban Institute	$50,000	1	0%
Georgetown University	$47,421	4	0%
Visionspring Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	0%

The Clear Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Good Ventures FoundationCA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Good Ventures Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Mulago Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Eleanor Crook Foundation · Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

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About The Clear Fund

How much does The Clear Fund give?: The Clear Fund reported 20 itemized grants totaling $49,442,847, out of $163,148,227 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Clear Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (91%), Human Services (3%), Science & Tech (2%).
Who are The Clear Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Against Malaria Foundation ($183M), New Incentives ($99M), Helen Keller International ($41M).
Does The Clear Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Clear Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Ventures Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gates Foundation.
Where is The Clear Fund based?: The Clear Fund is based in CA.