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The Gladys and Franklin Clark 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Gladys and Franklin Clark Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 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
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $575k · revenue +8%- MMMUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +52%
- CDChild Development Resources2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LFLET FREEDOM RING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
- VRVERSABILITY RESOURCES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
- WAWilliamsburg Area Memorial Community Centerone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -20% · 26% of their budget
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 virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
The mission is to supplement the activities of the virginia american revolution 250 commission (va250), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia, to plan, develop, and perform programs and activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary…
To support the restoration and preservation of Virginia's historic capitol square, comprising the state capitol building, executive mansion, bell tower, state office buildings and grounds, by providing funds to restore, preserve, acquire,…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Williamsburg Area Memorial Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CATCHERS ↗
- Who funds LET FREEDOM RING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERSABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Williamsburg Area Memorial Community Center ↗
- Who funds GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
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: Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Sentara Health · Abbitt Family Foundation · The Robert McEldowney Jr Family Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · The Gap Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Gladys and Franklin 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.
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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