· Private foundation
Clay Lacy Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOB HOOVER ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION | $81,500 |
| NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME | $26,000 |
| LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $15,000 |
| KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY | $10,730 |
| CORPORATE ANGELS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| FLIGHTS TO FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SP | $10,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,175 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ISRAEL PARASPORTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| RENO AIR RACE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +66% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- POPlanes of Fame Air Museum2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +459% · 26% of their budget
- SCSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +92%
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WOWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -6%
- AMAerospace Museum of Californiagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +110% · 53% of their budget
- AYAVIATION YOUTH MENTERING PROGRMone grant, 2023 · $120k
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.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
The military aviation museum honors the heroes who built, flew and maintained america's military aircraft. by sharing their stories through exhibitions and events, we promote an understanding of history, science, service and sacrifice that…
Promote and preserve general aviation and aviation history.
To serve as preservationist of past, present, and future aerospace and aeronautical artifacts, historical documents, and memorabilia of the santa maria valley and this nation.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
The foundation supports the military aviation museum.
To encourage and advance the science of aircraft electronics.
Inspire a community for innovation and discovery, preserve aerospace history, and honor those who serve.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Experimental Aircraft Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Charters Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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 Planes of Fame Air Museum ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Aerospace Museum of California ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COSMOSPHERE INC ↗
- Who funds BOB HOOVER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aviation Hall of Fame ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHARTERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MILLION LITTLE ↗
- Who funds Wichita Aero Club ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Apex Foundation · Si Robin Foundation · Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Robert a and Susan C Wilson Foundation · Ray Foundation Inc · Berry Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Clay Lacy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Amac-Action Inc — 0% 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.