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Clausen Family Foundation Grants

Private foundation · EIN 85-1573003 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025

Total grants paid
$1.3M
Grants reported
9
Typical grant
$55.5K
Future commitments

Reported commitments not yet paid.

Not reported

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: Clausen Family Foundation

Giving by tax year

Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.

Tax yearGrants paidAmount
20254$503K
20245$810.5K

Where Clausen Family Foundation gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

Hillsdale College

HILLSDALE, MI

$600KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Clausen Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund

Hillsdale College

HILLSDALE, MI

$250KTax year 2025

Grant purpose

To support the production of Hillsdale College's free online course on Homer's The Iliad, including filming, editing, and distribution, advancing Hillsdale's mission to make classical education rooted in the Western tradition accessible worldwide

Hillsdale College

HILLSDALE, MI

$250KTax year 2025

Grant purpose

To support the production of Hillsdale College's free online course on Homer's The Odyssey, including filming, editing, and distribution, advancing Hillsdale's mission to make classical education rooted in the Western tradition accessible worldwide

Hillsdale College

HILLSDALE, MI

$100KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Pat Sajak Visual Media Center

Providence Network

DENVER, CO

$55.5KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

General & Unrestricted

Showing 5 of the 9 largest grants (9 reported in all).

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from Clausen Family Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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