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.

Where is Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation based?

Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation is based in CA.

Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation

Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.4MHealth$291kArts & Culture$254kInternational$42kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$16kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $37k
$10k–50k1 grant · $40k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION	$40,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$7,500
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOODBANK	$4,000
SHOTGUN PLAYERS	$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$2,500
KQED MEMBER SERVICES	$2,500
CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE	$2,200
MARIN THEATER CO	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
WHISTLESTOP	$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$1,500
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION	$1,200
AURORA THEATER	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA	$1,000
WORD-FOR-WORD Z SPACE	$1,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$673k · 65 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$673k

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+17%

Still filing today

57%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +58%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +98%
SP
Shotgun Players
9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +54%

Funded once

BA
BOB AND JUDY CLYMAN CHARITABLE FUND
one grant, 2021 · $2.4M
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO COVID RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2020 · $5k
TN
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +12%

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.

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 103 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

40/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,505,791Education$245,400Arts & Culture$219,200International$44,700Health$23,800Philanthropy$19,000Human Services$12,350

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

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

15report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home