Virginia · Private foundation
Claws Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Claws Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $18M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $27M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $32M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $39M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $23M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $9.0M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $4.9M | 10% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Valley Research Foundation | $32,600,000 | 3 | 100% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $30,350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | $13,000,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Refugepoint Inc | $11,000,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $11,000,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Women in Need Inc | $9,585,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $6,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $5,534,565 | 3 | 8% |
| Philadelphia Contemporary | $5,200,000 | 3 | 90% |
| Alliance for Decision Educationinc | $5,000,000 | 7 | 29% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Claws Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Susquehanna Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Armstrong Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Snider Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation
How this is measured
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About Claws Foundation
- How much does Claws Foundation give?
- Claws Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $18,517,065 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Claws Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Philanthropy (20%), International (14%).
- Who are Claws Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Silver Valley Research Foundation ($33M), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($30M), The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America ($13M).
- Does Claws Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Claws Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Claws Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Susquehanna Foundation.
- Where is Claws Foundation based?
- Claws Foundation is based in VA.
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