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Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc at a glance

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Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$328k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$525kPhilanthropy$322kArts & Culture$292kCivil Rights$250kHealth$241kInternational$68kReligion$42kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY$125,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND$100,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$90,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND$5,000
CITY OF HOPE$5,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%AMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND: $1k → 22%CITY OF HOPE: $5k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $50k → 6%SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER: $3k → 7%STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETICS: $1k → 9%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $250k → 17%PUBLIC ART FUND: $5k → 20%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE: $5k → 28%VALLEY CHABAD: $7k → 7%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $100k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE: $3k → 28%VALLEY CHABAD: $3k → 7%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $185k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE: $2k → 28%DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $125k → 17%DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $125k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $125k → 17%DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UJA FEDERATION: $110k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5k → 17%UJA FEDERATION: $110k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5k → 17%UJA FEDERATION: $102k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $92k → 17%DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $90k → 17%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $38k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $25k → 17%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER: $3k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $3k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND: $63k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND: $38k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND: $12k → 17%TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $8k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $5k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $5k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $4k → 17%TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $4k → 17%TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $3k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1k → 17%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 10 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$1.9M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

30%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $900k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $367k · revenue -45%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $322k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -35%
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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
3
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
4
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
University of Judaism Foundation
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10
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
11
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and media (pjfm) creates connection and community through jewish cinema and digital storytelling. pjfm welcomes everyone to engage with jewish culture and values through its educational and entertaining year-round…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Living Organ Donor Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NY: $900,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF NYDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $112,563 · OtherDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUNDPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $40,045 · Other+13 more: $96,767 · Other+13 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $367,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HA…+5 more: $9,750 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $321,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APP…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $112,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $5,000 · InternationalSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $1,195 · Youth DevelopmentICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000 · Education
Other$1,199,375Arts & Culture$376,750Philanthropy$321,500Health$113,500International$73,000Youth Development$1,195Education$1,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $367,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $321,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $112,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $1,195 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Deborah Clayman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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