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Caa Foundation

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.

$461k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$715kHuman Services$512kYouth Development$187kArts & Culture$156kEnvironment$140kCrime & Legal$118kCivil Rights$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
$12,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$998k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Communities in Schools of los angeles$168,402
Entertainment Industry Foundation$63,072
NonProfit Vote Inc$25,000
American Indian College Fund$24,000
United Negro College Fund Inc$23,600
The Posse Foundation$20,000
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade$20,000
One Voice$15,714
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$15,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs$15,000
Point Foundation$12,500
Israel Emergency Alliance$10,000
Fulfillment Fund$6,500
Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles$5,000
The Kids Mental Health Foundation$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $421k) 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 its 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%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%SHE'S THE FIRST: $1k → 17%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $402 → 14%Fulfillment Fund: $7k → 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: $16k → 14%ONE VOICE: $2k → 14%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 29 repeat orgs$809k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
76

Total granted

$2.4M
$701k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $610k · revenue +34%
  • OV
    One Voice
    8× · 2017–2025 · $381k · 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
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
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
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
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
5
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
6
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
7
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
8
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
9
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 122 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
60/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $324,054 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATIONENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $285,803 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY …ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $105,477 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROP…LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $60,651 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD…+3 more: $22,000 · PhilanthropyDONORSCHOOSEORG: $204,340 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE: $147,910 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS…FIRST BOOK: $109,983 · EducationFIRST BOOKCOLLEGE TRACK: $55,933 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $48,877 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE F…POINT FOUNDATION: $40,209 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION: $38,463 · Education+8 more: $121,500 · Education+8 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $609,821 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCH…+2 more: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentOne Voice: $381,109 · Human ServicesOne Voice+6 more: $39,457 · Human Services+6 moreNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $94,400 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTE…Individual grant recipient: $31,275 · OtherLIFT INC: $125,000 · OtherLIFT INCNonprofit VOTE Inc: $75,000 · OtherNonprofit VOTE IncOASIS CENTER INC: $63,957 · OtherOASIS CENTER INCHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $37,119 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $38,250 · Other+70 more: $463,018 · Other+70 moreCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $62,000 · Arts & CultureSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $53,860 · Arts & CultureARRAY ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $15,465 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,550 · Arts & CultureNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $15,000 · Environment+3 more: $15,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$797,985Education$767,215Youth Development$636,821Human Services$420,566Other$928,019Arts & Culture$194,875Environment$155,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $609,821 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetOne Voice: $381,109 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $324,054 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $285,803 over 5y, 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 budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNonprofit VOTE Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $63,957 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $60,651 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $55,933 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $53,860 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetARRAY ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $48,877 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $40,209 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $38,463 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $38,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $37,119 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEFS FOR CHANGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $15,465 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTWO BIT CIRCUS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCHOLARS AND STORYTELLERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $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 budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $7,466 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home