· Private foundation
The Clifton Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $533k
- $250k+1 grant · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $320,000 |
| PECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND | $150,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES | $105,000 |
| HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S | $85,000 |
| MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $83,675 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC | $54,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $40,000 |
| POCONO PLATEAU PROGRAM CENTER | $25,000 |
| HAVEN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| CASA OF THE MID-SHORE | $20,000 |
| TONKAWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,000 |
| COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- PUPECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +122%
- TITALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +148%
- KSKENT SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- 1U1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TATHE ANIMAL CARE SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $20k
- VMVIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
To improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice and other pallative care, compassionate support and education.
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.
Coastal christian ministries exists to help prepare children to be disciples of the lord jesus christ. coastal christian ministries will honor god by teaching a desire for and love of christ in each student so he/she will want to exemplify…
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.
Private school for grades k-12
Provide a safe and caring program for youth that inspires hope for the future and stresses personal responsibility within an atmosphere of respect for everyone.
The mission of mariners christian school is "building a firm foundation through christ centered education" in the heart and mind of each child. each student's development is nurtured in an academically rigorous and christ centered…
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Oklahoma 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 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S ↗
- Who funds Northern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNTS MID SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NO PERSONS LEFT BEHIND OUTDOORS ↗
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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Salmon Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Friel Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Bernard and Betty Hardesty 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 Clifton 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.
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.