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The Clements Family Charitable Trust
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
- Under $10k88 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $49,000 |
| GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY | $21,500 |
| EAST BLUE HILL LIBRARY ASSOCATION | $21,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS | $20,000 |
| SUSAN CURTIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $7,500 |
| BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $6,000 |
| NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE | $5,600 |
| SHAW INSTITUTE | $5,500 |
| THE TELLING ROOM | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KEY WEST LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE PORTLAND | $5,000 |
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, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 10 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
KNEISEL HALL8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +260%- PAPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF KEY WEST INC6× · 2018–2023 · $68k · revenue +46%
- BHBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- TWTENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE - PACKWone grant, 2017 · $8k
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST KEY WESTone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HGHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +10%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Portland Adult Education. 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 39 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 1% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 185 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF KEY WEST INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds George Stevens Academy ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TRIAL AND ERROR ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Prior Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · The Martin Foundation · Keys Open Doors Foundation 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 Clements Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music to Life Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Key West Film Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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