How much does James B McClatchy Foundation give?

James B McClatchy Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,070,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does James B McClatchy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Philanthropy (15%), Civil Rights (6%).

Who are James B McClatchy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Valley Journalism Collaborative ($2.3M), Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified ($1.8M), Galt Joint Union Elem School ($1.6M).

Does James B McClatchy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as James B McClatchy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The James Irvine Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management.

Where is James B McClatchy Foundation based?

James B McClatchy Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

James B McClatchy Foundation

We stand with the people of the Central Valley by investing in education and active civic participation in our democracy.

$10M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2025: 50
Organizations funded FY2024: 34%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,070,081
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,070,081
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 53; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $28M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations James B McClatchy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	1	$10M	100%
FY2024	50	$5.6M	34%
FY2023	50	$4.7M	34%
FY2022	53	$6.6M	55%
FY2021	23	$2.4M	61%
FY2019	13	$641k	46%
FY2018	20	$1.4M	55%
FY2017	10	$1.3M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$13MPhilanthropy$5.4MCivil Rights$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$1.0MCommunity Improvement$702kPublic Benefit$428kHealth$331kOther$0

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
Central Valley Journalism Collaborative	$2,250,000	3	59%
Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified	$1,845,881	7	n/a
Galt Joint Union Elem School	$1,624,484	7	n/a
Robla School District	$1,424,698	7	n/a
Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified	$1,084,897	5	n/a
Education First	$1,000,000	2	n/a
Washington Unified School	$852,695	5	n/a
Sanger Unified School District	$734,301	2	n/a
Lindsay Unified School District	$550,000	3	n/a
Winters Joint Unified School	$549,920	3	n/a

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All grantees of James B McClatchy Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Valley Journalism Collaborative	$2,250,000	3	59%
Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified	$1,845,881	7	n/a
Galt Joint Union Elem School	$1,624,484	7	n/a
Robla School District	$1,424,698	7	n/a
Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified	$1,084,897	5	n/a
Education First	$1,000,000	2	n/a
Washington Unified School	$852,695	5	n/a
Sanger Unified School District	$734,301	2	n/a
Lindsay Unified School District	$550,000	3	n/a
Winters Joint Unified School	$549,920	3	n/a
Delhi Unified School District	$546,817	3	n/a
Woodlake Unified School Distr	$520,471	3	n/a
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$505,000	3	1%
Youth Development Network	$496,000	4	22%
Fresno Arts Council Inc	$470,000	4	23%
First Amendment Coalition	$450,000	6	17%
South Kern Sol	$420,000	3	n/a
Edsource Inc	$411,000	3	4%
The California Education Partners	$400,000	2	4%
Fresno Art Museum	$362,000	2	46%
Fresnoland Media	$360,000	3	22%
Black Youth Leadership Project	$360,000	4	18%
Sacramento Area Congregations Together	$305,000	3	9%
Sobrato Early Academic Language Program	$300,000	1	2%
Californians Together	$261,000	3	3%
The California Center for Civic Participation	$258,000	4	30%
Public Health Advocates	$250,000	2	2%
Parent Inst for Quality Educa	$250,000	2	n/a
Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc	$220,000	2	2%
Mendota USD	$211,465	2	n/a
California State University Fresno Foundation	$200,000	5	0%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc	$185,000	5	1%
Reinvent Stockton Foundation	$185,000	1	3%
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno	$163,500	3	3%
The Center for Public Integrity	$150,000	1	3%
Central Valley Latino Leaders	$125,000	1	n/a
Faith in the Valley	$120,000	2	3%
The Freedom Bound Center	$115,440	2	4%
The Uc Davis Foundation	$115,000	3	0%
Yolo Co Office of Education	$110,000	1	n/a
Freedom of the Press Foundation	$110,000	2	1%
Journalism Funding Partners	$95,000	3	2%
Little Manila Rising	$95,000	3	2%
Ivanhoe Community Council Inc	$92,000	3	n/a
Northern California Grantmakers	$90,000	2	1%
Community Media Access Collaborative	$75,000	1	4%
Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center	$71,000	3	3%
City Ministry Network	$70,000	3	5%
Madera County Superintendent	$60,149	1	n/a
State Center Community College Foundation	$55,000	4	1%
Local Media Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
California Press Foundation	$50,000	2	31%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Chicano & Latino Youth Leadership Project	$45,000	2	8%
Education and Leadership Foundation	$45,000	2	0%
Youth Leadership Institute	$40,000	3	0%
Opening Doors Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Community Interventions Inc	$40,000	1	4%
Community Initiatives	$37,000	1	0%
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation	$37,000	4	0%
White Ash Broadcasting Inc	$35,000	1	2%
Asian American Journalists Association	$35,000	1	1%
GO Public Schools	$35,000	1	1%
Institute for Public Interest Media	$35,000	1	n/a
PRO Youth and Families	$34,849	2	1%
Fresno for Clean Safe Neighborhood Parks A Coalition of Parents	$30,000	1	6%
Take Note Troupe	$28,000	3	n/a
Winship-Robbins Elementary	$25,000	1	n/a
Central Valley Partnership	$25,000	1	8%
Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment	$20,000	1	2%
Helping Others Pursue Excellence	$20,000	1	2%
California Forward	$20,000	1	1%
San Juan Unified School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Black Students of California United	$20,000	1	2%
California School-Age Consortium Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Council on American-Islamic Relations California	$20,000	1	0%
Capital Public Radio Fdba Kxpr/Kxjz Inc	$17,000	2	0%
Woven Coalition	$15,000	1	12%
Tulare County League of Mex-Am Women Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
University of California Merced Foundation	$12,500	1	0%
Asian American Liberation Network	$12,500	1	2%
Reading and Beyond	$10,000	1	0%
United Way of Merced County	$10,000	1	0%
Roberts Family Development Center	$10,000	1	0%
California Humanities	$10,000	1	0%
Mercy Pedalers Inc	$10,000	1	7%
River City Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
The Fresno Center	$10,000	1	0%
Kings River Conservancy	$10,000	1	5%
International Rescue Committee INC	$10,000	1	0%
Fresno State Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Placer County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue	$10,000	1	60%
The Economic Development Corporation Serving Fresno County	$10,000	1	0%
Radio Bilingue Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Social Science Research Council	$10,000	1	0%
Cesar Chavez Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Drip Drop News	$10,000	1	n/a
Salvation Army National Corp	$9,000	1	n/a
Placer 10-35 Foundation	$8,500	1	n/a
Lee Publishing Company Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Sac County Bar Association	$7,500	1	n/a
The Foundation for Ucp of Greater Sacramento	$5,500	1	1%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.

James B McClatchy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 75.

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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 California EndowmentCA77× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Sierra Health Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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.

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About James B McClatchy Foundation

How much does James B McClatchy Foundation give?: James B McClatchy Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,070,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does James B McClatchy Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Philanthropy (15%), Civil Rights (6%).
Who are James B McClatchy Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Valley Journalism Collaborative ($2.3M), Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified ($1.8M), Galt Joint Union Elem School ($1.6M).
Does James B McClatchy Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as James B McClatchy Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The James Irvine Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management.
Where is James B McClatchy Foundation based?: James B McClatchy Foundation is based in CA.