· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UTAH SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C Comstock Clayton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Comstock Clayton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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