· Private foundation
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+7 grants · $294M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC | $201,538,566 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $30,000,000 |
| CHARLES AND LYNN SCHUSTERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $25,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP | $8,500,000 |
| NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $2,500,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $1,000,000 |
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $696.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50M 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
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP3× · 2020–2022 · $28M · revenue +3% · 30% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP3× · 2020–2022 · $17M · revenue +14%
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $12M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $20M · revenue -4%
- ACAMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- EFEDUCATION FINANCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
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.
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Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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To promote innovative solutions to education challenges and inspire action that creates positive, sustainable futures for children and youth worldwide
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Trends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD TRENDS INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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: Blue Meridian Partners Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Edna McConnell Clark Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Child Trends Inc — 50% 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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