· Private foundation
The Clowes Fund Incorporated
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 181 grants below total $2,925,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,138,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $213,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k81 grants · $221k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inc. DBA Newfields | $100,000 |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inc. DBA Newfields | $100,000 |
| Boston Foundation, Inc. | $75,000 |
| Immigrant Welcome Center, Inc. | $50,000 |
| English for New Bostonians, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Exodus Refugee Immigration, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $50,000 |
| EdVestors, Inc. | $50,000 |
| New Hampshire Legal Assistance | $50,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana & Kentucky, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Inc. | $40,000 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $37,500 |
| Tree Street Youth, Inc. | $30,000 |
| Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc. | $30,000 |
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 +38% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
191 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 20 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- EFENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $364k · revenue +146%
- TITHE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +210%
- ERExodus Refugee Immigration Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- N(Newfields (The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inc. dba Newfields)one grant, 2020 · $380k
- SCShepherd Community Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +52%
- GSGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +101%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Jog Your Memory 5K 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
279 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. 279 of the 307 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart 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.
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