Colorado · Private foundation
The Clayton and Billie Poenisch 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.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 | 18 | $200k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $183k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $141k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $144k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $63k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $135k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $25k | 92% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Orphanos Foundation | $72,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $53,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tohono Chul Park Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Champion Ministries Inc | $21,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Oshkosh Wesleyan Church | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Festival of Hope | $19,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Wray Community Hospital Foundation | $19,000 | 2 | 94% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation
- How much does The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation give?
- The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (20%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($110k), Orphanos Foundation ($73k), The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union ($53k).
- Does The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clayton and Billie Poenisch 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 Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kitzmiller-Bales Trust, Nebraska Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation based?
- The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation is based in CO.
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