Texas · Nonprofit
CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION
CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,300 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($126,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Houston Arts Alliancelocal
- Scholarship America Incportfolio match
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio match
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.
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.
87% of CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $33k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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
CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 79% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“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
65% of CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Houston Arts AlliancelocalTX · funds 276 organizations near you
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Colleges of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Opportunity Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Landmark Farm Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ba Mason Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chief Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dennis & Jennie Hendrix Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Landry's Restaurants Inc General PAC · exempt
- Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation · exempt
- Fertitta Entertainment Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION?
- CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,300 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($126,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $238,300 in grants to CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $126,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing