Missouri · Private foundation
Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $542k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $542k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $490k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $485k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $517k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $487k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $461k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $457k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $486k | 16% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stages St Louis | $265,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Board of Commissioners of Tower Grove Park | $185,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $160,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Bird Sanctuary | $150,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kirkwood Historical Society | $135,000 | 7 | 51% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shepherds Center of Websterkirkwood Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Salvation Army | $100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Magic House | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation with peer funders
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About Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation
- How much does Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation give?
- Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $542,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stages St Louis ($265k), Board of Commissioners of Tower Grove Park ($185k), Forest Park Forever Inc ($160k).
- Does Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
- Where is Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation based?
- Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation is based in MO.
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