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THE CLARE FOUNDATION

THE CLARE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$59k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$35k
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE CLARE FOUNDATION's revenue fell 49% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve2.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($166k) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 229 ($266k) Expenses 99 ($164k) Net assets 104 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 192 ($223k) Expenses 99 ($165k) Net assets 107 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 105 ($123k) Expenses 94 ($156k) Net assets 105 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 262 ($304k) Expenses 96 ($160k) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 50 ($59k) Expenses 95 ($158k) Net assets 107 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 12 ($14k) Expenses 94 ($156k) Net assets 101 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 51 ($59k) Expenses 82 ($137k) Net assets 98 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (51)Expenses (82)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of THE CLARE FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

THE CLARE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Government funding THE CLARE FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.

State$14k
Top programs
  • Educational Services$14k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like THE CLARE 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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CLARE 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.

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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 THE CLARE FOUNDATION?
THE CLARE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CLARE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,000 in grants to THE CLARE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CLARE FOUNDATION?
Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CLARE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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