The Bill and Gigi Clements Foundation concentrates large, unrestricted gifts on data-driven climate risk and flood resilience organizations as well as at least one major regional arts institution. Their funding favors organizations that develop flood-risk modeling, public-facing risk data, and national advocacy for flood policy, with a single arts grantee suggesting an interest in place-based cultural investment. Grants are large, often repeated, and provided with few restrictions, indicating trust in grantees' strategic use of funds.
Highly concentrated: a small number of very large, unrestricted grants, often repeated to the same organizations; funding is focused rather than widely distributed.
The Bill and Gigi Clements Foundation has made flood resilience its clearest throughline, pairing large unrestricted gifts with support for organizations that shape flood policy, data tools, and public understanding of risk. In 2025, it gave $833,334 to American Flood Coalition Inc. and another $833,334 to Clearpath Foundation Inc., both marked for unrestricted use, continuing a pattern of substantial support for climate-risk work. Earlier grants show the same orientation: First Street Foundation Inc. received unrestricted funding in 2023 and 2024, reflecting a sustained relationship with an organization known for flood-risk modeling and public-facing risk data. The foundation’s recent portfolio also includes a major cultural grant, with Great Lakes Center for the Arts receiving large unrestricted awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That combination suggests a funder that backs data-heavy resilience work at scale while also making room for place-based arts and community institutions. Across the recent record, grants are often repeated and frequently unrestricted, pointing to a preference for flexibility rather than tightly specified project funding.
Flood-risk data and modeling organizations sit at the center of this foundation’s recent grants. First Street Foundation Inc. received unrestricted support in both 2023 and 2024, aligning with work on predictive tools and public flood-risk information. Policy advocacy is another clear lane: American Flood Coalition Inc. was funded in 2023, 2024, and 2025 with unrestricted gifts, including the $833,334 award in 2025. Clearpath Foundation Inc. also appears repeatedly in 2023, 2024, and 2025, with unrestricted grants of the same scale. Beyond climate and policy work, the foundation has also backed regional institutions such as Southern Methodist University in Dallas, with unrestricted awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That mix shows a portfolio that includes both national resilience work and Texas-based institutional support.
Typical grants range from $11,250 at the 25th percentile to a median of $115,000 and $554,166 at the 75th percentile, so the foundation’s giving is often sizable even though it also makes smaller awards. The recent record shows repeated support for the same organizations across multiple years, including several three-year sequences. Grants are overwhelmingly unrestricted, which fits the foundation’s flexible-funding approach. The foundation is structured as a private foundation, and it does not fund individuals or make program-related investments.
$822K
$10.4M
$1.9M
$1.2M
Most grants fall between $11K and $554K, with a median of $115K.
25th Percentile
$11K
Median
$115K
75th Percentile
$554K
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Notable grantees: ClearPath Foundation, American Flood Coalition, First Street Foundation, Great Lakes Center for the Arts
Grants are concentrated in the United States, with all recent grants landing there. Texas is the top state by grant count, and 43% of grants go to recipients in the foundation’s headquarters state. Recent Texas recipients include Dallas, Tyler, San Antonio, and Bergheim, showing a strong in-state pattern alongside national awards to Washington, DC; Charlotte; Brooklyn; and Bay Harbor, Michigan. The recipient list also reaches Evanston, Illinois, and Jacksonville, Florida.
Recent grants show a strong emphasis on flood-risk data and modeling, national flood policy and resilience advocacy, and climate resilience research organizations. It also makes unrestricted grants to a regional arts institution, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, and to Texas-based education, food, and community groups.
Yes. The recent grants list is dominated by unrestricted awards. Examples include repeated unrestricted grants to American Flood Coalition Inc., Clearpath Foundation Inc., First Street Foundation Inc., and Great Lakes Center for the Arts.
Yes. Several recipients appear in multiple years. American Flood Coalition Inc., Clearpath Foundation Inc., First Street Foundation Inc., Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Mentoring Alliance of East Texas, and The Society of Cincinnati all received more than one grant in the recent record.
Texas is the top state by grant count, and 43% of grants go to recipients in Texas. Recent Texas recipients include organizations in Dallas, Tyler, San Antonio, and Bergheim.
The 25th percentile grant size is $11,250, the median is $115,000, and the 75th percentile is $554,166. That spread shows a mix of smaller local awards and very large unrestricted grants.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | BAY HARBOR, MI | $661,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE OF EAST TEXAS | TYLER, TX | $120,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $15,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | JACKSONVILLE, FL | $10,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SNIPSA | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $10,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CITY KIDS ADVENTURES PROGRAM | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $5,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | WASHINGTON, DC | $1,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $833,334 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC | CHARLOTTE, NC | $833,334 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | BAY HARBOR, MI | $550,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | DALLAS, TX | $166,668 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE OF EAST TEXAS | TYLER, TX | $120,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SNIPSA | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $20,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CITY KIDS ADVENTURES PROGRAM | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $20,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $20,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | JACKSONVILLE, FL | $10,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | WASHINGTON, DC | $1,500 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| MARVIN METHODIST CHURCH | TYLER, TX | $1,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC | CHARLOTTE, NC | $555,554 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FIRST STREET FOUNDATION INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $555,554 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $555,554 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | BAY HARBOR, MI | $537,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | DALLAS, TX | $166,666 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE OF EAST TEXAS | TYLER, TX | $110,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | EVANSTON, IL | $10,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | WASHINGTON, DC | $5,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | BERGHEIM, TX | $5,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | TYLER, TX | $5,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $555,554 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC | CHARLOTTE, NC | $555,554 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FIRST STREET FOUNDATION INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $555,554 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | BAY HARBOR, MI | $172,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | DALLAS, TX | $166,666 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE OF EAST TEXAS | TYLER, TX | $110,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | EVANSTON, IL | $20,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CITY KID'S ADVENTURES | SAN ANTONIO, TX | $15,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | WASHINGTON, DC | $500 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
$661,000UNRESTRICTED USE
MENTORING ALLIANCE OF EAST TEXAS
$120,000UNRESTRICTED USE
SNIPSA
$10,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CITY KIDS ADVENTURES PROGRAM
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC
$833,334UNRESTRICTED USE
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
$550,000UNRESTRICTED USE
SNIPSA
$20,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CITY KIDS ADVENTURES PROGRAM
$20,000UNRESTRICTED USE
MARVIN METHODIST CHURCH
$1,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC
$555,554UNRESTRICTED USE
FIRST STREET FOUNDATION INC
$555,554UNRESTRICTED USE
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
$537,000UNRESTRICTED USE
BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CLEARPATH FOUNDATION INC
$555,554UNRESTRICTED USE
FIRST STREET FOUNDATION INC
$555,554UNRESTRICTED USE
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
$172,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CITY KID'S ADVENTURES
$15,000UNRESTRICTED USE