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CLEAR GLOBAL INC

CLEAR GLOBAL INC (Idaho) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,759 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($914,989). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.0M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$794k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Clear Global Inc does

Mission

Helping people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We accomplish this mission through innovative global research and programs, language technology, language service platforms, an experienced, professional staff, and a community of over 60,000 linguists in 148 countries. Whether it's a covid-19 chatbot in nigeria, translator training in kenya or linguistic research in rohingya refugee camps, our work helps organizations communicate more effectively, so they can reach more people, listen harder and accelerate impact.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. International programs - clear global's purpose is to improve two-way communication by reducing language and communication barriers for crisis-affected and underserved populations. Clear global conducted and disseminated research and guidance on language inclusion, accountability, safeguarding (including psea), public health, and digital humanitarian services, and shared findings through presentations and briefings to humanitarian, governmental, and ngo audiences. Clear global expanded access to publicly available language use data to support planning and service delivery through a new platform providing datasets, visualizations, and apis covering 50 countries.

    $1,799,470 spent$410,022 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. Language services - clear global delivered multilingual resources and language services supporting 115 humanitarian, development and social impact efforts, translating over five million words into 204 language pairs supporting thousands of users across more than 120 countries.

    $1,164,228 spent$1,234,955 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  3. Program technology - the organization also advanced ethical language technology initiatives, including multilingual chatbots, terminology resources, user experience research, and initial rollout of voice data collection to support inclusive speech technologies.

    $115,306 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,079,004.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($744k)2018 Revenue 88 ($1.5M) Expenses 119 ($1.5M) Net assets 99 ($735k)2019 Revenue 183 ($3.1M) Expenses 240 ($3.0M) Net assets 126 ($935k)2020 Revenue 277 ($4.7M) Expenses 341 ($4.3M) Net assets 184 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 264 ($4.5M) Expenses 440 ($5.5M) Net assets 46 ($338k)2022 Revenue 313 ($5.3M) Expenses 441 ($5.5M) Net assets 14 ($106k)2023 Revenue 280 ($4.7M) Expenses 347 ($4.3M) Net assets 76 ($562k)2024 Revenue 237 ($4.0M) Expenses 302 ($3.8M) Net assets 107 ($794k)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (302)Net assets (107)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $1.2M (−48%).

$914k
$974k
$1.5M
$2.3M
$1.2M
$970k
$1.8M
$2.7M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 33% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of CLEAR GLOBAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$443k
’17
−$9k
’18
$99k
’19
$432k
’20
−$1.0M
’21
−$224k
’22
$405k
’23
$235k
’24
5.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Aimee Ansari

Executive director

Board chair

Andrew Bredenkamp

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1099911998
Joined·+1+2+2+3+0+0+1
No longer listed·2221202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $75k → $22k.

8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CLEAR GLOBAL 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

CLEAR GLOBAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% 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 CLEAR GLOBAL INC.

36%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 53% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of CLEAR GLOBAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

CLEAR GLOBAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 5 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Idaho out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

CLEAR GLOBAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CLEAR GLOBAL INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Translators Without Borders Ireland · exempt
  • Translators Without Borders Nigeria · exempt
  • Translators Without Borders Bangladesh · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEAR GLOBAL INC?
CLEAR GLOBAL INC (Idaho) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,759 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($914,989). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEAR GLOBAL INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,510,759 in grants to CLEAR GLOBAL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEAR GLOBAL INC?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $914,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEAR GLOBAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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