California · Private foundation
Clay Foundation - West
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $728k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2026
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Clay Foundation - West funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 22 | $728k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 21 | $646k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $581k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $443k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $411k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $392k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $358k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $332k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Playhouse | $653,100 | 10 | 3% |
| Marin Theatre Company | $389,400 | 9 | 3% |
| The Exploratorium | $275,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Sonoma Arts Live | $271,000 | 10 | 24% |
| La Luz Center | $235,000 | 10 | 2% |
| Valley of the Moon Natural History Association | $182,500 | 10 | 3% |
| Brooks School | $180,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance | $170,000 | 10 | 3% |
| Sebastiani Theatre Foundation Inc | $156,000 | 8 | 1% |
| American Conservatory Theatre Foundation | $149,500 | 10 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($875k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clay Foundation - West supplied at peak.
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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: McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Gaia Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · John Christopher Bunting Foundation · Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Clay Foundation - West
- How much does Clay Foundation - West give?
- Clay Foundation - West reported 22 grants totaling $727,650 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Clay Foundation - West fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (14%), Science & Tech (9%).
- Who are Clay Foundation - West's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: San Francisco Playhouse ($653k), Marin Theatre Company ($389k), The Exploratorium ($275k).
- Does Clay Foundation - West fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clay Foundation - West accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clay Foundation - West?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McNabb Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Sonoma County Community Foundation.
- Where is Clay Foundation - West based?
- Clay Foundation - West is based in CA.
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