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The Clayton Fund Inc at a glance

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The Clayton Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$4.4MEducation$3.9MEnvironment$1.8MHuman Services$1.1MInternational$665kCommunity Improvement$560kYouth Development$545kFood & Nutrition$415kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k33 grants · $885k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$35,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast$250,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$220,000
SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC$150,000
BETA FOUNDATION$150,000
ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL$120,000
Baylor College of Medicine$100,000
FRIENDS OF PUMPKIN PARK$100,000
Prison Entrepreneurship Program INC$100,000
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC$75,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAMERON COUNTY$70,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$60,000
ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC$60,000
Houston Area Women's Center$50,000
HOUSTON HOSPICE$50,000
THE WOMENS HOME$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%South Texas Advancement Resource: $15k → 21%South Texas Advancement Resource: $10k → 21%American Red Cross: $20k → 14%PURPLE SONGS CAN FLY: $20k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $50k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $25k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $25k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $20k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $20k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston: $15k → 16%PURPLE SONGS CAN FLY: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $50k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $25k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $15k → 16%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $40k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $40k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $40k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $40k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $40k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $40k → 16%Today's harbor for children: $30k → 16%Arms Wide Adoption Services: $35k → 16%Todays Harbor for Children: $25k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $150k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program INC: $100k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program INC: $100k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $50k → 16%Target Hunger: $125k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $50k → 16%Bridgeyear: $20k → 16%Bridgeyear: $15k → 16%Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $20k → 16%Bridgeyear: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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CA
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HI
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 70 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

70 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
41

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $875k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TH
    Target Hunger Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +68%
  • TO
    Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HB
    HOUSTON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -26%
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.

1
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
4
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
5
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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6
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
7
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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8
Central Houston Civic Improvement Inc

Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.

Community Improvement
9
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
10
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
11
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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12
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans; the most unlike its peers is South Texas Advancement Resource. 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

105 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. 105 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/105
Grantees still filing
71/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Trustees of Princeton University: $650,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Un…SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $555,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL-CASA INCPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATIONWilliam Marsh Rice University: $287,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice Universit…TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $285,000 · EducationTEXAS EDUCATION WORKSBaylor College of Medicine: $245,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTeach for America Inc: $160,000 · EducationTHE BETA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $125,000 · EducationWitherspoon Institute Inc: $125,000 · Education+11 more: $600,000 · Education+11 morePlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,425,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf C…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $875,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERA…ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC: $350,000 · HealthACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS …Planned Parenthood Cameron County: $305,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Camero…WOMEN'S AND MEN'S HEALTH SERVICES OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $240,000 · HealthWOMEN'S AND MEN'S HEALTH …+6 more: $145,000 · HealthTEENSMART INTERNATIONAL: $325,000 · OtherTEENSMART INTERNATION…CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $235,000 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATOR…Houston Hospice: $195,000 · OtherHouston HospiceANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL: $120,000 · OtherTrustees of Princeton University: $100,000 · OtherHope and Healing Center & Institute: $110,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · OtherFriends of Pumpkin Park: $100,000 · Other+43 more: $1,545,000 · Other+43 morePRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREP…SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $235,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR…THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OV…Houston Area Women's Center: $190,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area …THE WOMEN'S HOME: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S H…Target Hunger Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hunger…BakerRipley: $80,000 · Human Services+9 more: $315,000 · Human Services+9 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BA…Urban Harvest Inc: $140,000 · EnvironmentUrban Harvest…Galveston Bay Foundation Inc: $125,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay…RESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES: $125,000 · EnvironmentRESTORE AMERI…+8 more: $150,000 · Environment+8 moreWORLD NEIGHBORS INC: $445,000 · InternationalPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $175,000 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC: $125,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $95,000 · InternationalEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 · InternationalASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $115,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $51,500 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS: $41,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMiller Theatre Advisory Board Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,682,000Health$3,340,000Other$2,825,000Human Services$1,800,000Environment$1,790,000International$875,000Arts & Culture$382,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,425,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $875,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $650,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $555,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $500,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBORS INC: $445,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC: $350,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTEENSMART INTERNATIONAL: $325,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Cameron County: $305,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $287,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $285,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $245,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S AND MEN'S HEALTH SERVICES OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $240,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $235,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $235,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $205,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHouston Hospice: $195,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $190,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $150,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BETA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES: $125,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $115,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $110,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFriends of Pumpkin Park: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWILDLIFE HABITAT FEDERATION: $90,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWriters in the Schools: $90,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBreakthrough Houston: $80,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBakerRipley: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK: $75,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTIRR Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROSE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $70,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budget
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.

The Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Strake FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Houston Endowment IncThe Elkins FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…The Powell FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Shell USA Company Fou…John P McGovern Found…
The Brown Foundation IncTX69.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation

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 The Clayton Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clayton Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • World Neighbors Inc: 46% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
33report 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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Find your warmest path to The Clayton Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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