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THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION

THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,767,000 to it, the largest being THE SAMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($17,692,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$-9289427
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$0
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation does

Program

  1. Expenses for grantee technical assistance in the areas of program management, program evaluation, and communications ($3,605).

    $3,605 spent

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($41M) Expenses 100 ($456M) Net assets 100 ($359M)2021 Revenue 193 ($80M) Expenses 35 ($159M) Net assets 85 ($306M)2022 Revenue -22 ($-9289427) Expenses 65 ($295M) Net assets 0 ($0)
202020212022
Revenue (-22)Expenses (65)Net assets (0)

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 $667M to $322M (−52%).

$667M
$322M
$0
202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

Mr H Lawrence Clark

Chair

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-PF.

202020212022
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6.9M → $75k.

From the IRS filings of THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK 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.

How concentrated its funding is

THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

94%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 96% · 2019 90% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

94% of THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CA

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK 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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Questions and answers

Who funds THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION?
THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,767,000 to it, the largest being THE SAMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($17,692,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,767,000 in grants to THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION?
THE SAMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,692,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 4 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