West Virginia · Nonprofit
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,062,461 to it, the largest being MAIER FOUNDATION INC ($1,231,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $110M
What Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc does
Mission
To provide educational, entertaining, and inspirational experiences in the arts and sciences for all people of west virginia and the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The clay center offers a comprehensive array of arts, science, and interdisciplinary programming, as well as educational opportunities. Both on and off-site programs may include performances, residencies, workshops, art exhibitions, planetarium demonstrations, large format film screenings, special art and/or science demonstrations, school and public tours of permanent interactive science galleries, and other community outreach or special events held throughout the year. Educational programs are supplemented by the development and distribution of customized educational materials aligned with the relevant state and national academic content standards for participating schools and educators. In addition, another service area includes the care, maintnenance, and on-going rotational public presentation of an approximately 900 item permanent art collection primarily focused on 19th and 20th century american art and with recent focus on works with connections to west virginia and appalachia as well as large, outdoor sculptures.
$6,603,011 spent$1,950,527 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,603,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $117M to $105M (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 22% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Munkith Al-Najjar
President & CEO
Board chair
Ellen Cappellanti
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $613k → $406k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $403k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for the Arts). These are real filings, and they are not money CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 54% · 2019 25% · 2020 35% · 2021 46% · 2022 60% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC?
- CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,062,461 to it, the largest being MAIER FOUNDATION INC ($1,231,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,062,461 in grants to CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC?
- MAIER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,231,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing