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CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC

CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,300 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$352k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$68k
Net assets
$579k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Clarion Foundation for Community Improvement Inc does

Mission

Community Improvements in Clarion, Iowa

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Clarion fitness center program: providing the only space in town for community residents to gather and exercise as well as improving the appearance of a historic downtown building.

    $79,798 spent
    64% of program spending
  2. All other program expenses including scholarships program, clarion theatre program, firemans park, clarion pride, leader in me program, backpack program, dan mccool memorial scholarship, wright county trails, cgd community corral, clarion senior center, clarion rec & wellness, playground program, and clarion youth soccer program.

    $40,235 spent
    32% of program spending
  3. Scholarship program: providing scholarships for higher education to graduating seniors at clarion-goldfield-dows high school.

    $3,800 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,833.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($217k)2019 Revenue 120 ($123k) Expenses 119 ($103k) Net assets 109 ($237k)2020 Revenue 52 ($53k) Expenses 80 ($70k) Net assets 101 ($220k)2021 Revenue 93 ($95k) Expenses 69 ($60k) Net assets 115 ($251k)2022 Revenue 82 ($84k) Expenses 73 ($63k) Net assets 125 ($271k)2023 Revenue 186 ($190k) Expenses 127 ($110k) Net assets 162 ($351k)2024 Revenue 345 ($352k) Expenses 143 ($124k) Net assets 267 ($579k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (345)Expenses (143)Net assets (267)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $363k to $581k (+60%).

$283k
$291k
$265k
$289k
$297k
$363k
$581k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’18
$20k
’19
−$17k
’20
$35k
’21
$20k
’22
$80k
’23
$228k
’24
39
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

92% of CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve39.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC?
CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,300 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $68,300 in grants to CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLARION FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing