Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Clayman 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.
- $450k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 69
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Clayman 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; $45k 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 | 71 | $450k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $491k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $571k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $651k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $459k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $354k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $365k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oc 87 Inc | $1,092,500 | 7 | 66% |
| Philadelphia Music Alliance Dba Pma Music Fund | $230,500 | 7 | 94% |
| Lankenau Medical Center Foundation | $172,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Academy in Manayunk | $102,833 | 7 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $74,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cogwell Inc | $53,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Support Center for Child Advocates | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Main Line Hospitals Inc | $45,569 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $45,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 119 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($624k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Clayman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Cigna Group Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Maguire Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Clayman Foundation
- How much does The Clayman Foundation give?
- The Clayman Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $450,312 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 69 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Clayman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Clayman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Oc 87 Inc ($1.1M), Philadelphia Music Alliance Dba Pma Music Fund ($231k), Lankenau Medical Center Foundation ($173k).
- Does The Clayman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clayman 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 The Clayman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation, The William Penn Foundation.
- Where is The Clayman Foundation based?
- The Clayman Foundation is based in PA.
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