· Private foundation
The Robert & Louise Claflin Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASON COUNTY SOCCERLEAGUE | $30,000 |
| MASON COUNTY COMMISSION | $27,500 |
| OPERATION MASON COUNTY VETERANS MEM | $20,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF GOD | $4,873 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,873 |
| CITY OF POINT PLEASANT | $4,000 |
| NEW HAVEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $3,844 |
| NEW HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,594 |
| RIVER TO RIDGES HERITAGE TRAIL | $1,665 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE | $1,500 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +110%- MCMASON COUNTY FAIR INC2× · 2018–2019 · $38k · revenue +56%
- MVMason Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- PPPT PLEASANT RIVER MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $61k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $18k
- WDWV DIVISION OF HIGHWAYSone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To protect property and lives of our community.
To provide ambulance service to eastern marshall county, illinois
Promotion of area enconomic development.
To promote mathews county to visitors and tourists
Recognize past & present sports achievements of the county.
Ambulance & emergency medical services
The mission of West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston Division d/b/a West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston, is to support the West Virginia University School of Medicine & Improve the lives of our patients,…
Capturing and preserving artifacts and stories regarding the city of monett and surrounding area and educating the general public regarding the history of same
Preservation and restoration of old prison
Improving madison county health care - the organization was able to benefit the people of madison county and surrounding area through the allocation of funds to the madison county health care system and nursing scholarships.
Promote agriculture and industry.
Provide firefighter services for Arnoldsburg and surrounding communties
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert & Louise Claflin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Louise Claflin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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