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The Clements Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$394k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Civil Rights$720kPublic Benefit$689kEducation$324kArts & Culture$289kEnvironment$208kHuman Services$183kCommunity Improvement$90kEmployment$70kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC$160,000
FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC$90,000
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$50,000
DEFY VENTURES INC$30,000
ORION SOCIETY$25,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND$12,500
PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION$10,000
ARIZONA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$6,705
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE INC: $20k → 10%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $5k → 14%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $3k → 16%CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE INC: $15k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $3k → 17%GRAMEEN RESEARCH INC: $100k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
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RI
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 22 repeat orgs$364k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$2.4M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+10%

Still filing today

95%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

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

  • AP
    AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $659k · revenue +373%
  • FS
    FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $640k · revenue +134%
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $138k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • GR
    GRAMEEN RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -32%
  • PP
    PINNACLE PREVENTION CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • SL
    SALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -81%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
7
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
8
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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11
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Take Back Our Republic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%67%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,519

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC — $659,300 · OtherAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INCSUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY — $107,500 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITYFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $90,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $45,000 · Other+19 more — $250,405 · Other+19 moreFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $640,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC+5 more — $57,500 · Civil Rights+5 morePhoenix Chamber Music Society — $151,000 · Arts & CulturePhoenix Cha…Center for the Contemplative Mind in Soc — $105,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for …GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDEFY VENTURES INC — $137,500 · EducationMEADOWBROOK WALDORF ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EducationARIZONA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $16,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $95,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club — $50,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $12,500 · EnvironmentGRAMEEN RESEARCH INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCONTEMPLATIVE LIFE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesMAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUMMER SEARCH — $70,000 · Employment
Other$1,152,205Civil Rights$697,500Arts & Culture$286,000Education$218,500Environment$207,500Human Services$155,000Employment$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC — $659,300 over 6y, 19% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $640,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetPhoenix Chamber Music Society — $151,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $137,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for the Contemplative Mind in Soc — $105,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $95,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWBROOK WALDORF ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPLATIVE LIFE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPINNACLE PREVENTION CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE MARIPOSA CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $16,705 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE BACK OUR REPUBLIC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoveOn Education Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHELSEA SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Tides FoundationArizona Community Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
ImpactassetsincMD14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Clements Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Clements Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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