Virginia · Nonprofit
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,120,353 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($731,196). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerlocal
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Incportfolio match
- Virginia Environmental Endowmentportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 15% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $21k → $330k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 48% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
54% of THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arts and Humanities Council of MontgomerlocalMD · funds 136 organizations near you
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Environmental Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tua August Heid by T Heid Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Mainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shenandoah National Park Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Janet Stone Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner T McKnight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Rockville Economic Development InclocalMD · funds 45 organizations near you
- Resources Legacy Fundshared fundersCA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
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 CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$200k
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 CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: 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 THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC?
- THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,120,353 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($731,196). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,120,353 in grants to THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $731,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 38funders 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