California · Private foundation
Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation
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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 25 | $77k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $87k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $79k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.4M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $110k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $63k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $64k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $245,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $124,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Shotgun Players | $16,300 | 9 | 0% |
| California Film Institute | $14,140 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Israel Inc | $14,090 | 3 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Rhe Charitable Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Vickie Soulier Family Foundation · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund · The Endurance Fund · Fenwick Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation with peer funders
About Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation
- How much does Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation give?
- Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $77,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), Health (9%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($245k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($125k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($23k).
- Does Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation, The Rhe Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation based?
- Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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