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CLAYSPACE NFP

CLAYSPACE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,557 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$433k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$37k
Grants received
$362k
Net assets
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

CLAYSPACE NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve11.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($227k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 100 ($146k)2018 Revenue 113 ($256k) Expenses 102 ($227k) Net assets 119 ($175k)2019 Revenue 121 ($274k) Expenses 110 ($244k) Net assets 140 ($204k)2020 Revenue 93 ($210k) Expenses 101 ($225k) Net assets 95 ($139k)2021 Revenue 119 ($269k) Expenses 116 ($259k) Net assets 102 ($149k)2022 Revenue 148 ($335k) Expenses 146 ($325k) Net assets 109 ($159k)2023 Revenue 208 ($472k) Expenses 153 ($341k) Net assets 85 ($124k)2024 Revenue 191 ($433k) Expenses 171 ($380k) Net assets 247 ($362k)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (171)Net assets (247)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 10% · 2021 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

25% of CLAYSPACE NFP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
17
$28k
18
$29k
19
$14k
20
$10k
21
$10k
22
$131k
23
$53k
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
2
1
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)73% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CLAYSPACE NFP’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

CLAYSPACE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CLAYSPACE NFP.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

73% of CLAYSPACE NFP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CLAYSPACE NFP

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLAYSPACE NFP: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CLAYSPACE NFP?
CLAYSPACE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,557 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLAYSPACE NFP have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,557 in grants to CLAYSPACE NFP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLAYSPACE NFP?
THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLAYSPACE NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing