Colorado · Nonprofit
GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST
GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,896,893 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($748,612). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $60M
What George W Clayton Trust does
Mission
At clayton, we work to foster a community characterized by trust, dignity, love, and justice with our children and families, our team members, and other partners on our campus and beyond. Continued on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education services: clayton early learning operates an early learning center on a twenty-acre historic campus in northeast denver. Clayton early learning is nationally recognized as an epicenter of ece practice. In our denver school, approximately 33% identify spanish as their primary language and nearly 90% qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. We directly serve nearly 600 students birth-to-5 in our school, through home-based and other programs, and through partnerships across colorado. We are succeeding in closing and preventing learning gaps for disadvantaged children through a powerful model unique to clayton early learning that harnesses the synergy of four dynamic initiatives - research, practice, training, and advocacy.
$10,831,097 spent$3,822,630 earned by the program68% of program spendingExternal services: clayton early learning impacts the school readiness of approximately 20,000 children in colorado annually by supporting and improving the quality of hundreds of early learning settings. Clayton is a data driven, evidenced based organization, constantly collecting data to measure how well a child is doing and how school ready they are when they leave our campus. We measure the success of our work with training and coaching programs by tracking the improved quality of teaching using colorado's quality rating and improvement system, colorado shines. Our all inclusive model sets us apart as we are constantly researching and evaluating our practices both internally and externally to improve the quality and effectiveness of early care and education programs.
$3,199,052 spent$3,162,645 earned by the program20% of program spendingCampus preservation program: clayton early learning owns 20 acres of land on which 12 buildings have been constructed for educational purposes. Of these, eight buildings are more than 100 years old and the property has been designated as a historic district by both the city of denver and the national registry of historic places. Clayton's obligation is to preserve and maintain these buildings and protect the exterior land and its park- like setting. All buildings are occupied by clayton staff or by other non- profit organizations focused on education, health, and/or social services.
$693,482 spent4% of program spendingClayton plays an integral role with advocating policy change for child care and early learning initiatives. We partner with other organizations in colorado to inform and promote effective and efficient early childhood education policies. We are proud to serve as subject matter experts on issues that impact children and families.
$1,141,653 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,865,284.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $34M to $56M (+66%).
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: 2017 62% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 18% · 2021 43% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% · 2024 39% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
William Browning
CEO
Board chair
Cindy Schulz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $271k → $606k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $2.8M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mile High United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST’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
GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
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 GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 90% · 2019 34% · 2020 28% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
60% of GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $967k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Clayton Early Learning Trustee · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST?
- GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,896,893 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($748,612). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,896,893 in grants to GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST?
- ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $748,612 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing