· Private foundation
C Comstock Clayton Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $525k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH SYMPHONY AND OPERA | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $500,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $150,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA CO | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| UTAH SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE CITY | $75,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $40,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $35,935 |
| HALE CENTER THEATER | $20,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EUGENE OPERA | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA6× · 2017–2022 · $750k · revenue +18%
- BWBALLET WEST6× · 2017–2022 · $215k · revenue +69%
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE CITY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +18% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +7%
- SOSEATTLE OPERAone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -7%
- TRTHE ROAD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Opera Education and Performance
Music & arts performances
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.
Choral Organization
Community Orchestra
Utah Lyric Opera (ULO) is a company based in Utah Valley committed to promoting Utah's highest caliber of artists and nurturing the burgeoning talents of Utah's future opera professionals.
To bring world class ballet to utah and other audiences. to educate the community on the value of dance as an art and to give the opportunity for all ages to participate
The mission of Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest through performance of great orchestral and choral literature; to introduce Northwest audiences to rarely heard works of…
Supports singer's education with seattle opera.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Opera and the most unlike its peers is Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI ↗
- Who funds EUGENE OPERA ↗
- Who funds DELGANI STRING QUARTET ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization C Comstock Clayton Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delgani String Quartet — 2% of income from government
- Eugene Opera — 1% of income from government
- Chamber Music Amici — 1% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.