· Private foundation
The Woolley-Clifford Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RJCEF FBO WAREHAM FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST | $632,893 |
| RJCEF FBO STEWART B CLIFFORD JR CHARITABLE FUND | $632,893 |
| RJCEF FBO JENNIFER DANNER CHARITABLE FUND | $632,893 |
| RJCEF FBO REBECCA MAILER HOWAT CHARITABLE FUND | $632,893 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CHURCH OF BETHESDA BY THE SEA | $60,000 |
| DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BEACON ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BOMB MAGAZINENEW ARTS PRODUCTION | $25,000 |
| ORDER OF ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| DUXBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FENWAY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DBDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2023 · $355k · revenue +14%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +62%- AGASPHALT GREEN INC3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BBBETHESDA BY THE SEAone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTSone grant, 2017 · $10k
WHEATON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 107 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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Woolley-Clifford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woolley-Clifford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Pilgrim Society: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Provincetown Commons Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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