Texas · Private foundation
The Clayton Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 60
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Clayton Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 49 | $2.5M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $2.2M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $2.4M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $3.0M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $2.4M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $2.2M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $1,425,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $1,250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $875,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $650,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Miguel-Casa Inc | $555,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Prairie View A&M Foundation | $500,000 | 3 | 8% |
| World Neighbors Inc | $445,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Access Esperanza Clinics Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Teensmart International | $325,000 | 5 | 18% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Clayton Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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 Fund Inc
- How much does The Clayton Fund Inc give?
- The Clayton Fund Inc reported 49 grants totaling $2,540,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Clayton Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (26%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Clayton Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ($1.4M), Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($1.3M), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($875k).
- Does The Clayton Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clayton Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Clayton Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Clayton Fund Inc based?
- The Clayton Fund Inc is based in TX.
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