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Caa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$708k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$324k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$715kHuman Services$512kYouth Development$187kArts & Culture$156kEnvironment$140kCrime & Legal$118kCivil Rights$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $287k
  • $250k+1 grant · $324k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$886k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Liberty Hill Foundation$324,054
Communities in Schools of los angeles$162,400
One Voice$62,966
LIFT INC$61,535
Step Up Women's Network$20,000
Creative Visions Foundation$15,000
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$15,000
Habitat for Humanity of Greater$10,000
Center for Black Educator Development$10,000
Center for Scholars & Storytellers$10,000
Music Sustainability Alliance$5,000
Anti-Recidivism Coalition$5,000
Pencil Foundation$1,982
Common Goal USA$1,500
United Negro College Fund Inc$1,274
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seed Consulting Group: $5k → 10%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $12k → 13%SHELTERBOX USA INC: $12k → 10%SHE'S THE FIRST: $1k → 17%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $402 → 14%One Voice: $89k → 14%One Voice: $63k → 14%One Voice: $63k → 14%One Voice: $56k → 14%ONE VOICE: $37k → 14%One Voice: $31k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%ONE VOICE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 29 repeat orgs$701k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
70

Total granted

$2.1M
$669k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

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

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $441k · revenue +34%
  • OV
    One Voice
    7× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +39%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    3× · 2019–2021 · $204k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue -49%
  • AA
    ARRAY ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -51%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $31k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
3
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
4
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
5
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
6
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Santa Monica Girls Fastpitch. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Sports ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Construc…Elementary Literacy Tutoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/83
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,895

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
52/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $324,054 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATIONENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $222,731 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY …ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $105,477 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROP…LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $40,651 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD…+2 more — $17,000 · PhilanthropyDONORSCHOOSEORG — $204,340 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $147,910 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS…FIRST BOOK — $109,983 · EducationFIRST BOOKCOLLEGE TRACK — $55,933 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKPENCIL FOUNDATION — $38,463 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATIONPOINT FOUNDATION — $27,709 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,277 · EducationCHIEFS FOR CHANGE — $25,000 · Education+5 more — $52,500 · Education+5 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $441,419 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN …+2 more — $27,000 · Youth Development+2 moreOne Voice — $365,395 · Human ServicesOne Voice+5 more — $32,957 · Human Services+5 moreNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $94,400 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $31,275 · OtherMarch On Foundation — $30,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $60,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE C…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $30,000 · OtherOASIS CENTER INC — $63,957 · OtherOASIS CENTER INCHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $32,119 · OtherNonprofit VOTE Inc — $50,000 · OtherNonprofit VOTE IncInternational Rescue Committee INC — $38,250 · Other+65 more — $408,518 · Other+65 moreCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $62,000 · Arts & CultureSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $53,860 · Arts & CultureARRAY ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT — $10,465 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,550 · Arts & CultureLIFT INC — $125,000 · EmploymentInner-City Filmmakers — $22,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$709,913Education$687,115Youth Development$468,419Human Services$398,352Other$838,519Arts & Culture$189,875Employment$147,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $441,419 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetOne Voice — $365,395 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $324,054 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $222,731 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $204,340 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $147,910 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLIFT INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $109,983 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $105,477 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $94,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC — $63,957 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $55,933 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $53,860 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNonprofit VOTE Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetARRAY ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $40,651 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $38,463 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $38,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $32,119 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $27,709 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,277 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHIEFS FOR CHANGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInner-City Filmmakers — $22,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center — $19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $15,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $15,325 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStudent Voice Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC — $12,994 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO BIT CIRCUS FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT — $10,465 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Nation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCHOLARS AND STORYTELLERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $7,466 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…Tides FoundationThe William & Flora H…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Carol and James C…Entertainment Industr…The San Francisco Fou…Wasserman FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…GofundmeorgLiberty Hill Foundati…
The Annenberg FoundationPA21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Carol and James Collins Foundation · Entertainment Industry Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Wasserman Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gofundmeorg · Liberty Hill 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 Caa Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Project Medishare for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Caa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Caa Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines