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The Clear Fund
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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.
The 20 grants below total $49,442,847 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,148,227 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,705,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $758k
- $250k+13 grants · $49M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $19,219,603 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $11,928,342 |
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE - TB | $4,500,000 |
| EVIDENCE ACTION-MATERNAL SYPHILIS | $2,874,362 |
| NEW INCENTIVES | $2,218,419 |
| ALIMA USA INC | $2,000,000 |
| YALE RESEARCH INITIATIVE | $1,299,147 |
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE - ORSZINC | $1,179,836 |
| DIMGAGI INC | $1,000,186 |
| DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION LAB UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $895,999 |
| CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE GLOBAL ACTION AT UC BERKELEY | $787,500 |
| MALENGO - UGANDAGERMANY PROGRAM | $500,000 |
| MIRACLEFEET | $261,936 |
| EVIDENCE ACTION (IFA) | $198,993 |
| CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT | $197,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $14.5M) 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 your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $114M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: OPERATING SUPPORT · EYEGLASSES · SEASONAL MALARIA CHEMOPREVENTION PROGRAM
Stated purpose: VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM
Stated purpose: MOBILE CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM · WHO PREQUALIFICATION FOR MOXIDECTIN
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $183M · revenue +29% · 69% of their budget
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $41M · revenue +44%
- AUALIMA USA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $16M · revenue +70% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- RIRICE INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $2.4M · revenue -4%
- OAONE ACRE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +1%
- RFRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Tb alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is The Imperial College Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 36 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 The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds ALIMA USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds The Imperial College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds RICE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds PRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MALENGO INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds ID INSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VISIONSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Clear Fund 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% 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.