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CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 at a glance

· Private foundation

CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$130M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $130M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
12
’18
14
’19
14
’20
14
’21
2
’22
0
’23
5
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$168MHealth$43MCrime & Legal$21MEnvironment$20MFood & Nutrition$10MHousing & Shelter$9.5MYouth Development$2.5MArts & Culture$2.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE$20,000,000
PAUL QUINN COLLEGE$20,000,000
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$20,000,000
NORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000,000
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY$20,000,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$20,000,000
LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY$6,375,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$4,000,000
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 (FY19–21, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $550k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%YMCA of Silicon Valley: $50k → 8%East Palo Alto Family YMCA: $50k → 8%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

NH
NY
MA
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80M · 26 repeat orgs$160M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$80M
$33M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-25%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $12M · revenue +99%
  • AA
    Alive and Free
    5× · 2017–2021 · $7.4M · revenue +17% · 63% of their budget
  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FAMILY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EARL MONROE CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10M
  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue -25% · 28% of their budget
  • AE
    Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank
    one grant, 2022 · $10M · revenue -27% · 70% of their budget
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
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
8
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
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 Live in Peace; the most unlike its peers is Soup. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 47 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,945,833 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVE…Paul Quinn College: $20,000,000 · EducationPaul Quinn CollegeTuskegee University: $20,000,000 · EducationTuskegee UniversityMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $20,000,000 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGEMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $20,000,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $12,080,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION+4 more: $7,390,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVE…FRIENDS OF EARL MONROE CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF EARL MONROE CHARTER S…MENLO SCHOOL COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY: $7,475,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOL COLLEGE OPPORTUNITYUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $7,360,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONLELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $6,375,000 · OtherLELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITYTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $6,000,000 · OtherTHE INNOCENCE PROJECTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SAN FRANCIS…The Innocent Project: $4,000,000 · Other+22 more: $15,062,390 · Other+22 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000,000 · HealthGREENPEACE FUND INC: $10,000,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000,000 · EnvironmentAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $10,000,000 · Food & NutritionAlive and Free: $7,379,811 · Crime & LegalTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,800,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION GENESIS INC: $1,155,000 · Philanthropy
Education$145,415,833Other$81,272,390Health$20,000,000Environment$20,000,000Food & Nutrition$10,000,000Crime & Legal$7,379,811Philanthropy$2,955,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,945,833 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $20,000,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTuskegee University: $20,000,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $20,000,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $20,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $12,080,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $10,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $10,000,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetAlive and Free: $7,379,811 over 5y, 63% of budgetCALIFORNIA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,540,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $2,500,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR EQUINE FACILITATED THERAPY: $2,500,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $2,500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,800,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $1,600,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetLIVE IN PEACE: $971,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $750,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $700,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPets In Need: $500,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH: $400,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Paul Quinn College ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Alive and Free ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR EQUINE FACILITATED THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUP ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION GENESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE IN PEACE ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Pets In Need ↗
  • Who funds THE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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