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The Clifford Family Foundation Charitable Trust C/O Daniel Carbonneau
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE CLIFFORD FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST C/O DANIEL CARBONNEAU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $435k
- $250k+6 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $1,950,006 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,600,000 |
| THE CAROLINE M CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUND SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING | $296,313 |
| THE JOHN C CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUND SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING | $296,313 |
| THE CATHERINE K CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUND SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING | $296,313 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $100,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| PARENT CHILD | $75,000 |
| B2K SOCIAL VENTURES | $60,000 |
| TRUE WEST FILM CENTER | $50,000 |
| NATUREBRIDGE | $50,000 |
| CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE | $38,000 |
| CARBON 180 | $37,500 |
| ICIVICS | $37,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 17 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; $97k 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
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +44%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +52%- PIPARENTCHILD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAROLINE M CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2019 · $331k
- TCTHE CATHERINE K CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2019 · $231k
- WCWHEELOCK COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $205k
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lc Foundation. 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 32 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) — 2% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 101 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RADIO ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE WEST FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Clifford Family Foundation Charitable Trust C/O Daniel Carbonneau 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.
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 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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