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The Clifton Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.9MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$465kArts & Culture$428kReligion$418kHousing & Shelter$335kYouth Development$123kPublic Benefit$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $533k
  • $250k+1 grant · $320k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CASA OF THE MID-SHORE$20,000
HAVEN MINISTRIES$20,000
TONKAWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$12,000
FOUNDATION OF HOPE$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,000
COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC: $50k → 10%NPLB OUTDOORS: $3k → 6%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC: $50k → 10%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC: $50k → 10%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC: $23k → 10%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC: $16k → 10%HOMEPORTS: $4k → 12%SAMARITAN GROUP: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 22 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$3.7M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+48%

Still filing today

55%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PU
    PECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +122%
  • TI
    TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +148%
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ANIMAL CARE SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • 1U
    1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • VM
    VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospice of the Chesapeake Inc

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.

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2
Westminster Canterbury On Chesapeake Bay Foundation

To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay

Health
3
Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc

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…

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4
Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability

Health
5
Coastal Christian High School Inc

Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.

Education
6
Coastal Christian Ministries Inc

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…

Religion
7
Chapel Pointe At Carlisle

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…

Human Services
8
Trinity Oaks Christian Academy

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.

Education
9
Annapolis Christian Academy

Private school for grades k-12

Education
10
United Methodist Home for Children Inc

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.

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11
Mariners Christian School

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…

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12
Norfolk Christian Schools

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INCCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $775,500 · PhilanthropyCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC+1 more: $129,735 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $1,710,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN: $427,500 · OtherHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEENPOCONO PLATEAU PROGRAM CENTER: $92,000 · Other+17 more: $379,290 · Other+17 morePECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC: $397,500 · ReligionKENT SCHOOL INC: $192,500 · EducationHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S: $85,000 · EducationNorthern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc: $65,000 · EducationFOUNDATION OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $16,500 · EducationTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 · Housing & ShelterCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $189,450 · Human Services+3 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$5,905,235Other$2,608,790Religion$397,500Education$374,000Housing & Shelter$332,500Human Services$198,450Civil Rights$30,000Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $1,710,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $775,500 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetPECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC: $397,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC: $300,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetKENT SCHOOL INC: $192,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $189,450 over 5y, 12% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $129,735 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC: $52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEPORTS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetVMI Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOPERATION NO PERSONS LEFT BEHIND OUTDOORS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 SAMARITAN GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION NO PERSONS LEFT BEHIND OUTDOORS ↗
  • Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Mid Shore Community F…Dock Street FoundationThe May Foundation of…David a Bramble Found…Fordi Family Foundati…The Llandaff Family T…The Salmon Foundation…The Seip Family Found…Friel Foundation IncThe Bessemer Giving F…Raymond James Charita…Bernard and Betty Har…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clifton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clifton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    13get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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