Skip to content

Texas · Private foundation

The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family 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.

$286k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 41
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$286k8%
FY202332$399k9%
FY202235$426k20%
FY202137$266k3%
FY202037$310k8%
FY201933$410k9%
FY201837$367k22%
FY201741$1.2Mn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MArts & Culture$800kHealth$705kEnvironment$115kInternational$80kFood & Nutrition$72kHousing & Shelter$40kHuman Services$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
VA
NM
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
William Marsh Rice University$1,303,73480%
St Johns College in Santa Fe$260,0006n/a
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$245,00081%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$240,00062%
Texas Heart Institute$200,00011%
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd$119,40072%
Financial Services Volunteer Corps Inc$80,00080%
Presbyterian Ear Institute$75,50032%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$69,00060%
Star of Hope Mission$40,00070%
Show all 44 grantees
All grantees of The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
William Marsh Rice University$1,303,73480%
St Johns College in Santa Fe$260,0006n/a
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$245,00081%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$240,00062%
Texas Heart Institute$200,00011%
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd$119,40072%
Financial Services Volunteer Corps Inc$80,00080%
Presbyterian Ear Institute$75,50032%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$69,00060%
Star of Hope Mission$40,00070%
The Santa Fe Opera$40,00070%
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$35,00040%
The Houston Food Bank$35,00070%
Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc$31,700210%
Trout Unlimited Inc$22,50080%
Project Sage Inc$22,00071%
River Oaks Foundation$20,00032%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$18,50060%
Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation$17,00080%
The Church of St John the Divine$14,0007n/a
Nehemiah Center Inc$8,50080%
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon Inc$8,00070%
Nuevo Mexico Profundo$6,00023%
Sharon Fire Department Inc$5,50080%
Houston Hospice$4,50070%
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research$4,00060%
Sharon Land Trust Inc$3,50050%
Salisbury Visiting Nurse Association Inc$3,50070%
Cato Institute$3,00060%
Sharon Green Preservation Association Inc$2,8507n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,50010%
McLean Project for the Arts$2,50010%
The Heritage Foundation$2,50050%
Houston Symphony Society$2,00020%
Bridges to Life$2,00030%
Upper Pecos Watershed Association$2,00020%
Presbyterian School$1,3002n/a
Sharon Historical Society Inc$1,10030%
Communities in Schools of Houston Inc$1,0001n/a
The Spanish Colonial Arts Society$1,00020%
Cornerstones Community Partnerships$50010%
Texas Bar Foundation$30020%
Houston Bar Foundation$20010%
Santa Fe Botanical Garden$8010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($749k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $1,303,734 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum: $245,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of New Mexico Foundation: $240,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSanta Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd: $119,400 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFinancial Services Volunteer Corps Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPresbyterian Ear Institute: $75,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $69,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Santa Fe Foundation Inc: $31,700 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sage Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRiver Oaks Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGlenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation: $17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $8,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHotchkiss Library of Sharon Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNuevo Mexico Profundo: $6,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSharon Fire Department Inc: $5,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Hospice: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSharon Land Trust Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSalisbury Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCato Institute: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcLean Project for the Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridges to Life: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Pecos Watershed Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSharon Historical Society Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Spanish Colonial Arts Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstones Community Partnerships: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Bar Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Bar Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Botanical Garden: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Brown Foundation IncTX23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Hutson-Wiley and Echevarria Foundation Inc · MJPM Foundation · Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · The Mortimer & Barbara Klaus Family Foundation · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · Easton Family Fund · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Slf Foundation · Low Road Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family 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.

About The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation

How much does The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation give?
The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $285,930 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (19%).
Who are The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: William Marsh Rice University ($1.3M), St Johns College in Santa Fe ($260k), Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ($245k).
Does The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Where is The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation based?
The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 70 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Robert L and Jean Clarke Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph