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Clayco 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$313k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$9.4MHealth$2.0MArts & Culture$1.0MInternational$400kYouth Development$271kScience & Tech$257kFood & Nutrition$250kEmployment$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $573k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine$312,500
Washington University$260,625
Netherland America Foundation$200,000
University of Chicago$200,000
University of Michigan$145,081
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine$137,500
Greater Chicago Food Depository$125,000
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine$110,000
The Pennsylvania State University$100,000
Ace Mentor Program of America$75,000
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy$50,000
Tools Up Foundation Inc$25,000
TGi Movement$25,000
Servants for Hope$25,000
Beyond Care Resource Center$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Brave Space Alliance: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
MO
AR
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Clayco Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Clayco Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 14 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
29

Total granted

$9.2M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +76%
  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +56%
  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • RF
    Rebuild Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • HM
    Hunterian Medicine LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $350k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $160k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Depaul University

As an innovative catholic, vincentian university anchored in the global city of chicago, depaul supports the integral human development of its students. the university does so through its commitment to outstanding teaching, academic…

Education
10
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
11
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ace Mentor Program of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Village Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,509,979 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,732,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUniversity of Chicago: $1,660,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $1,075,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc+3 more: $345,000 · EducationRebuild Foundation: $1,000,000 · OtherRebuild FoundationUniversity of Michigan: $722,178 · OtherUniversity of MichiganPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $705,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: $560,000 · OtherUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Me…Hunterian Medicine LLC: $350,000 · OtherHunterian Medicine LLCInstitute Curie (Paris): $257,000 · OtherUniversity of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy: $200,000 · Other+27 more: $1,126,186 · Other+27 moreTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · InternationalCCDI INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG VOICES WITH ACTION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTGI MOVEMENT: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $125,000 · Food & NutritionNPOWER INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPROSPERITY NOW: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPRIDE ROC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$8,322,479Other$4,920,364International$400,000Youth Development$181,200Food & Nutrition$125,000Community Improvement$45,000Crime & Legal$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,509,979 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,732,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,660,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $1,075,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $722,178 over 5y, 66% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCCDI INC: $90,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTOOLS UP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF POSITIVE EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNPOWER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTGI MOVEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLIV Recovery Sober Living: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPRIDE ROC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROSPERITY NOW: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBROWN FOUNDATION COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $6,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMBARC INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS MEDICAL CENTER: $273 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds CCDI INC ↗
  • Who funds TOOLS UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG VOICES WITH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF POSITIVE EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
  • Who funds TGI MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds LIV Recovery Sober Living ↗
  • Who funds Servants For Hope Inc ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clayco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clayco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    The endowment market
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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