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The Four Leaf Clover Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$1.3MEducation$1.0MHealth$717kFood & Nutrition$714kReligion$660kCrime & Legal$434kEmployment$359kYouth Development$333kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $755k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EYE THRIVE$120,000
GATEWAY REGION YMCA$100,000
THE COLLECTIVE THREAD$100,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$75,000
MICA PROJECT$60,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
VEAP$50,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$50,000
FREEDOMWORKS$50,000
THE WILSON SCHOOL$50,000
SWIM ON FOUNDATION$30,000
CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL$25,000
NURSES FOR NEWBORNS$25,000
COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY: $10k → 7%YOUTH IN NEED: $10k → 5%FOSTER TOGETHER: $5k → 9%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $25k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $20k → 11%JOE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $10k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS: $23k → 21%OUR LADY'S INN: $5k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS: $5k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $5k → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 21%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 21%EYE THRIVE: $120k → 21%EYE THRIVE: $20k → 21%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $1k → 16%ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $100k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $70k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $50k → 21%AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 21%RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $50k → 21%RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $46k → 21%RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $36k → 21%MICA PROJECT: $70k → 11%RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $11k → 21%MICA PROJECT: $60k → 11%MICA PROJECT: $60k → 11%MICA PROJECT: $60k → 11%MICA PROJECT: $60k → 11%MICA PROJECT: $60k → 11%ANGELS' ARMS: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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OR
CA
CO
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AZ
NC
LA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 48 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
60

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • MA
    Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project
    6× · 2019–2024 · $370k · revenue +160%
  • TW
    THE WILSON SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $293k · revenue +44%
  • JJ
    JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $230k · revenue +419%

Funded once

  • MS
    MORGAN STANLEY ANONYMOUS INVESTMENTS DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $525k
  • TG
    THE GOSPEL COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • MF
    MONSANTO FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
3
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
4
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
5
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
6
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
7
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
8
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
9
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
10
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
11
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
12
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is This Is the Dog 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Local Food System Organizat…Animal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%8%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr24%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%27%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr24%21%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/97
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,394

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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 118 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
62/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY ANONYMOUS INVESTMENTS DONOR ADVISED FUND — $525,000 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY ANONYMOUS INVESTMENTS DONOR ADVISED F…K-LIFE MINISTRIES — $345,000 · OtherK-LIFE MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVEAP Inc — $225,000 · OtherVEAP IncSWIM ON FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherSWIM ON FOUNDATIONST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY AT UMSL — $126,000 · OtherTHE GOSPEL COALITION INC — $100,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $225,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDCOMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC — $145,000 · Other+52 more — $658,000 · Other+52 moreMigrant and Immigrant Community Action Project — $370,000 · Human ServicesMigrant and Immigran…GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $220,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY REGION YOUNG…RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES — $143,000 · Human ServicesRISE TOGETHER MINIST…EYE THRIVE — $140,000 · Human ServicesEYE THRIVENURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $45,000 · Human Services+16 more — $172,000 · Human Services+16 moreTHE WILSON SCHOOL — $293,000 · EducationTHE WILSON …CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $136,000 · EducationCITY GARDEN…CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — $40,000 · EducationCENTRAL INS…JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $34,000 · EducationJOHN BURROU…BOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC — $20,000 · Education+7 more — $57,000 · Education+7 moreFREEDOMWORKS INCORPORATED — $225,000 · HealthFREEDOMWORK…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · HealthCROHN'S & C…Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis — $45,000 · HealthDelta Gamma…CASA DE SALUD — $30,000 · HealthMILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Health+5 more — $25,000 · HealthJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $46,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ACCESS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD — $337,000 · ReligionFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $225,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · International+4 more — $8,000 · International
Other$2,749,000Human Services$1,090,000Education$580,000Health$580,000Youth Development$386,500Religion$337,000International$253,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMigrant and Immigrant Community Action Project — $370,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD — $337,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetTHE WILSON SCHOOL — $293,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetVEAP Inc — $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INCORPORATED — $225,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC — $145,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetRISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES — $143,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetEYE THRIVE — $140,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $136,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $46,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $41,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCASA DE SALUD — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS' ARMS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $18,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClayton Community Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBuilding Futures Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADY READERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOONE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLIDARITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLECTIVE THREAD ↗
  • Who funds THE WILSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE TOGETHER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EYE THRIVE ↗
  • Who funds CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
  • Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
  • Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
  • Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
  • Who funds MILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…World Wide Technology…Brown Dana Charitable…Centene FoundationMoneta Group Charitab…Pott FoundationYouthbridge Community…Berges Family Foundat…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO79.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Berges Family 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 Four Leaf Clover 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Four Leaf Clover Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Four Leaf Clover Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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