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The Clyfford Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIMATE LAW POLICY PROJECT | $260,200 |
| GIMME SHELTER ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| CHARITY AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $10,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TAThe Abraham Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +149%
- 1A1761 ARTS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +167%
BARD COLLEGE2× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- AIAKASHINGA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +745%
- MFMANNA FOOD CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +21%
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.
New York Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (NYSAWG) is a not-for-profit organization located in western New York to raise awareness of issues affecting the sustainability of the food and agriculture system. The Organizations mission…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Conserve, enhance, and celebrate our distinctive catskill sanctuary through sustainable horticulture, responsible land stewardship, and innovative educational programming
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Pitney meadows community farm's mission is to celebrate and explore agricultural educaiton, healthy food and recreation.
The purpose is to ensure, improve and maintain the integrity of the community surrounding sutton place south and sutton place park in manhattan, new york (the "community"), including the visual aspects, aesthetics, trees, shrubs and…
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
To offer emergency food assistance, service the food-related needs of vulnerable populations, and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger. we are nonsectarian, community focused, and volunteer supported.
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Protect is a grassroots, membership organization dedicated to the protection, stewardship and sustainability of the natural environment and human communities of the adirondack park and the new york state forest preserve for current and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Star Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 CLIMATE LAW AND POLICY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Gimme Shelter Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Abraham Foundation ↗
- Who funds 1761 ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTAUK PLAYHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTAUK FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MADOO CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Clyfford 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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