How much does The Clowes Fund Incorporated give?

The Clowes Fund Incorporated reported 181 itemized grants totaling $2,925,750, out of $3,138,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 153 and 164 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Clowes Fund Incorporated fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Human Services (6%), Education (4%).

Who are The Clowes Fund Incorporated's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Newfields Inc ($27M), English for New Bostonians Inc ($364k), The Immigrant Welcome Center Inc ($324k).

Does The Clowes Fund Incorporated fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Clowes Fund Incorporated accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Clowes Fund Incorporated?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc.

Where is The Clowes Fund Incorporated based?

The Clowes Fund Incorporated is based in IN.

The Clowes Fund Incorporated

The Clowes Fund Incorporated at a glance

· Private foundation

The Clowes Fund Incorporated

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

181

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$28MHuman Services$3.1MEducation$2.1MYouth Development$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.8MEmployment$947kCivil Rights$791kInternational$674kOther$0

02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 181 grants below total $2,925,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,138,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $213,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k81 grants · $221k
$10k–50k89 grants · $2.0M
$50k–250k11 grants · $675k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$59M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
EdVestors, Inc.	$50,000
English for New Bostonians, Inc.	$50,000
Exodus Refugee Immigration, Inc.	$50,000
New Hampshire Legal Assistance	$50,000
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana & Kentucky, Inc.	$50,000
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project	$50,000
Immigrant Welcome Center, Inc.	$50,000
Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc.	$50,000
Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Inc.	$40,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation	$37,500
Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc.	$30,000
Tree Street Youth, Inc.	$30,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$40M · 191 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191

Total granted

$40M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+11%

Still filing today

94%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

EF
ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $364k · revenue +146%
TI
THE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +210%
ER
Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +258%

Funded once

N(
Newfields (The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inc. dba Newfields)
one grant, 2020 · $380k
SC
Shepherd Community Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +52%
ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +51%

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.

03Its 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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal

Ceres Inc

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…

Environment

Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment

The Common Application Inc

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…

Education

Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Wheaton College

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…

Education

New England Lawboston

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; 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.

03the grantee network

279 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. 279 of the 307 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

273/279

Grantees still filing

194/279

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$27,530,000Other$6,645,500Human Services$3,031,750Education$1,871,875Crime & Legal$1,280,500Civil Rights$959,750Community Improvement$756,125

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN82.5× affinity51 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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