· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 JOHN C CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUND SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING | $296,313 |
| THE CATHERINE K CLIFFORD DONOR ADVISED FUND SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING | $296,313 |
| THE CAROLINE M 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 |
| ACTIVATE GLOBAL | $37,500 |
| ICIVICS | $37,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE WEST FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds DRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clifford Family Foundation Charitable Trust C/O Daniel Carbonneau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clifford Family Foundation Charitable Trust C/O Daniel Carbonneau. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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