· Private foundation
Ca Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $739k
- $250k+2 grants · $637k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $350,328 |
| THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRIT | $286,873 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $240,800 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $190,531 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $158,025 |
| PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN MCDONA | $74,500 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER | $25,000 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THE TRAIL CONSERVANCY AUSTIN | $18,118 |
| KUT | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of Ca Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BBREAKTHROUGH5× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +199%
Vanderbilt University3× · 2017–2025 · $791k · revenue +74%
POMONA COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
Zoe Empowersone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -4%- HCHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +690%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
To protect, enhance and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Champions Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Shoal Creek Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHAWK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mfi Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · St David's Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Better Business Bureau · Patagoniaorg · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ca Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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