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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$4.6MEducation$3.0MScience & Tech$307kYouth Development$208kRecreation & Sports$151kArts & Culture$120kPhilanthropy$105kReligion$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $739k
  • $250k+2 grants · $637k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%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

WY
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Ca Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ca Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$4.6M · 23 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$4.6M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+37%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    5× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +199%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2017–2025 · $791k · revenue +74%
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • Zoe Empowers
    one grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -4%
  • TO
    THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -94%
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
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

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…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development
4
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Trinity Park Conservancy

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…

Community Improvement
6
The Trail Conservancy

To protect, enhance and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.

Environment
7
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

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…

Environment
8
Texas Land Trust Council

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.

Environment
9
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
10
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
11
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

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.

Environment
12
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; 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.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 41 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,653,279 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $425,328 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRIT: $286,873 · OtherTHE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRIT+18 more: $910,945 · Other+18 moreBREAKTHROUGH: $944,973 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHVanderbilt University: $790,531 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityPOMONA COLLEGE: $710,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGETHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $415,000 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVEISLAND CONSERVATION: $136,500 · EnvironmentShoal Creek Conservancy: $32,500 · EnvironmentHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · EnvironmentWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $15,000 · Environment+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentChampions Educational Foundation: $162,760 · Youth DevelopmentCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $45,125 · Youth DevelopmentPease Park Conservancy: $146,632 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS: $56,128 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC: $20,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $10,000 · Health
Other$5,276,425Education$2,860,504Environment$244,000Youth Development$207,885Recreation & Sports$205,260Philanthropy$105,000Health$30,000

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,653,279 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $944,973 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetVanderbilt University: $790,531 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $710,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $415,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetChampions Educational Foundation: $162,760 over 6y, 23% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $146,632 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION: $136,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS: $56,128 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $45,125 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetShoal Creek Conservancy: $32,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetZoe Empowers: $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIGHTHAWK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCICLAVIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHAWK ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…Shield-Ayres Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…Mfi FoundationJacob and Terese Hers…St David's FoundationCommunity Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…Better Business BureauPatagoniaorgNational Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ca Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ca Foundation 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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