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The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson at a glance

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The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$606kEducation$288kPhilanthropy$253kArts & Culture$106kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
$25,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$94,192
MICHAEL VON CLEMM CHARITABLE TRUST$83,561
Individual grant recipient$25,500
NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL$25,000
INNER VOICE OUTER CHANGE$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 82% of grant dollars ($1.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($253k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $95k → 8%INNER VOICE OUTER CHANGE: $2k → 11%HOWARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB: $20k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S RADIO FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MICHAEL VON CLEMM CHARITABLE TRUST: $84k → 15%NORTH HAVEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $94k → 8%HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB: $20k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $92k → 8%HOWARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB: $20k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $85k → 8%HOWARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB: $20k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $83k → 8%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $80k → 8%THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $40k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $77k → 8%THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $40k → 16%HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $20k → 8%THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $25k → 16%NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $50k → 16%THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $25k → 16%NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL: $25k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $26k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $20k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $20k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $20k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $20k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $20k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $17k → 16%BOSTON ANTHENAEUM: $17k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($253k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$253k · 4 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnsonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$758k · 4 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$758k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+183%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • MV
    MICHAEL VON CLEMM CHARITABLE TRUST
    5× · 2017–2024 · $337k
  • NB
    North Bennet Street School
    6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue -10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $156k

Funded once

  • RW
    RADIO WORKSHOP US INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +183%
  • HT
    HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HS
    HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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.

04Its field
05the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $605,954 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeNorth Bennet Street School: $205,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street SchoolMICHAEL VON CLEMM CHARITABLE TRUST: $336,722 · OtherMICHAEL VON CLEMM CHARITABLE TRUSTIndividual grant recipient: $156,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOWARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB: $60,000 · OtherHOWARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUB+4 more: $47,500 · Other+4 moreRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureINNER VOICE OUTER CHANGE FOR YOUTH INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$810,954Other$600,222Arts & Culture$22,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $605,954 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $205,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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.

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
  • Who funds RADIO WORKSHOP US INC ↗
  • Who funds INNER VOICE OUTER CHANGE FOR YOUTH INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation C/O Ethan Johnson 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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