The Clarion Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203114945
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Stanford, CA, USA
Phone
6503252476
Rating
97
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Humanities Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,038
Expenses
$91,936
Assets
$320,674
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAREN J FOWLER (PRESIDENT)
  • KIM STANLEY ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • NATHAN HILLSTROM (TREASURER)
  • CORY DOCTOROW (DIRECTOR)
  • KAREN J FOWLER (PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Literary awareness

What it reported doing in 2025

Scholarships for the arts and humanities college departments to sustain high standards of academic and research programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.6%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.49; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.