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CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION

EIN 45-5620521 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$24,028,784
Expenses 2024
$6,603,329

Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T12
Classification
1000
Street
CO FFO 545 FIFTH AVENUE 1103

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CLF INVESTS IN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN & UNITED STATES AND HELPS COMMUNITIES PREPARE FOR AND WITHSTAND NATURAL DISASTERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CLF SUPPORTS COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOLUTIONS THAT STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE THREATS.

  • CLIMATE RESILIENCE & EMERGENCY RESPONSE - OUR CLIMATE RESILIENCE INITIATIVE (CRI) IS FOCUSED ON INVESTING IN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION OF HEALTH, SHELTER AND COMMUNICATION PROJECTS ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN.

    Expenses $2,279,858 · Grants $1,630,064

  • CLIMATE SOLUTIONS - OUR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS PILLAR SUPPORTS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE U.S. AND CARIBBEAN FOCUSED ON REIMAGINING AND IMPLEMENTING SHORT AND LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE IMPACTS. THESE ORGANIZATIONS INTEGRATE CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO DECISION-MAKING, AND WORK TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES.

    Expenses $1,074,100 · Grants $581,000

  • LEGACY - WE SUPPORT A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES IN BARBADOS INCLUDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROJECTS FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS AND HEALTH CLINICS, A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, AND ONGOING SUPPORT FOR OUR VERY FIRST PARTNER THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL.

    Expenses $1,086,177 · Grants $792,424

  • Expenses $597,107 · Grants $229,141

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robyn R Fenty

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kawanna Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Cheryl Alston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jay Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Monica Fenty Braithwaite

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lukas Haynes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tamara Larsen

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jessie Schutt-Aine

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ivan Rosales

    CHIEF FINANCIAL AND OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $253,525
    From this org
    $237,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,025
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $237,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,875
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,150
    Filer's total
    $253,525

  • Mai Lassiter

    INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $539,042
    From this org
    $521,792
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,250
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $521,792
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $539,042

  • Jo Opot Through 012024

    INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $24,028,784
    Expenses
    $6,603,329
    Contributions
    $21,417,253
    Grants paid
    $3,232,629
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,880,363
    Expenses
    $7,634,109
    Contributions
    $1,266,815
    Grants paid
    $4,405,015
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $28,731,272
    Expenses
    $20,254,125
    Contributions
    $28,175,469
    Grants paid
    $17,596,654

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,596,509
    Expenses
    $8,907,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,086,810

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,804,365
    Expenses
    $34,203,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,340,502

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,698,794
    Expenses
    $3,870,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,749,384

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,709,700
    Expenses
    $3,870,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,749,384

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,053,073
    Expenses
    $1,961,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,628,675

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,268,975
    Expenses
    $2,402,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,563,218

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $523,167
    Expenses
    $930,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,689,631

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,546,182
    Expenses
    $3,258,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,158,415

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,004,284
    Expenses
    $421,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,641,020

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • GATHER VENTURES LIMITED

    PROGRAM ADVISORY SERVICES · KE · income $890,767 · assets $347,041

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.