· Private foundation
The Clinger 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD | $5,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE | $2,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,500 |
| CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD | $2,500 |
| WORLD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| PROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +2% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PJPROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +26% · 29% of their budget
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +11%
Feeding America2× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MSMS SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $7k
- CCCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -4%
- VIVillage Improvement Society of Dennisone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +1%
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.
250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
MACC seek to contribute to the development of movement arts on Cape Cod in a three-fold way: 1 through teaching, 2 through research, and 3 through outreach presentations, lectures and other events. MACC organizes spaces and forums for…
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
Sustainable capes mission is to celebrate local food while teaching about the health of our bodies, community, and environment. we demonstrate the direct link between local food, sustainable health and wellness, and the importance of…
It is our mission to be the premiere organization for training, exhibiting, and promoting the arts on cape cod.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Community music, free concerts and music education.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 PROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Village Improvement Society of Dennis ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clinger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clinger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc: 9% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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