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Cahalin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cahalin Family 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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$5.2MEducation$187kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kRecreation & Sports$23kCrime & Legal$10kHealth$4kCommunity Improvement$3kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS$45,000
WOODLAND ELEMENTARY BOOSTERS INC$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAN DIEGO ORANGE AND IMPERIAL COUNTIES BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MARIPOSA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL: $30k → 15%MERCED COLLEGE AG DIVISION: $500 → 19%YOSEMITE SOUTH GATE TRAIL COOP: $5k → 22%MT VERNON PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 13%HAPPY GOAT INC: $5.2M → 11%MARIPOSA COUNTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%YOSEMITE SOUTH GATE TRAIL COOP: $5k → 22%REAL WORLD SCHOLARS: $135k → 11%MARIPOSA FFA BOOSTERS: $6k → 15%REAL WORLD SCHOLARS: $45k → 11%MANNA HOUSE OF MARIPOSA COUNTY: $5k → 15%LITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%TIER ONE TRANQUILITY BASE: $2k → 15%JOHN C FREMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%MARIPOSA SOCCER LEAGUE: $2k → 15%MARIPOSA FRIENDS OF THE FAIRGROUNDS: $1k → 15%MCHS GRIZZLIES BOOSTERS: $1k → 15%WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $510 → 15%WOODLAND ELEMENTARY BOOSTERS INC: $500 → 15%MARIPOSA CO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $250 → 15%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Cahalin Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Cahalin Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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 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
Friends of Mariposa County Sheriffs Search and Rescue

To provide support for search and rescue activities of mariposa county search and rescue.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Mariposa Jr Livestock Auction Committee

To promote and conduct the annual 4H/FFA/Independent Junior Livestock Auction at the Mariposa County Fair and Homecoming. The auction is held to assist 4H, FFA and Independent members learn by doing projects designed to teach fundamentals…

Food & Nutrition
3
Madera County Sheriffs Foundation

To support law enforcement in Madera Co

Human Services
4
Mariposa Rotary Fund

To provide to carry on charitable and educational activities in mariposa county.

Education
5
Mountain Fire Foundation

TO support sonoma county fire district fire safety

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6
Madera County Ag Boosters

The mission is to support youth agricultural programs in Madera County, California

Education
7
Mariposa Trails

To Restore and Promote Public Trails

Environment
8
Mariposa Museum & History Center Inc

Preservation and education of the history of mariposa county

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9
Three Rivers Fire Safe Council

To provide education, assist emergency services with finding homes and to help mitigate fire hazards around rural neighborhoods.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Farm Supply Foundation

Support youth agriculture endeavors and education.

Youth Development
11
Mariposa Bears Youth Football and Cheer

Youth Football and Cheer

Recreation & Sports
12
Modoc Fire Safe Council

To bring together the resources of public and private resource organizations in the interests of wildfire prevention loss and mitigation.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mariposa County Sheriffs Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Real World Scholars Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAPPY GOAT INC: $5,249,000 · EnvironmentHAPPY GOAT INCREAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyYOSEMITE SOUTH GATE TRAIL COOP: $10,000 · OtherManna House of Mariposa County: $5,000 · OtherLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTIER ONE TRANQUILITY BASE: $2,000 · OtherMariposa Soccer League Inc: $1,500 · OtherJOHN C FREMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Other+7 more: $4,260 · OtherMariposa Fire Safe Council Inc: $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMARIPOSA COUNTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMariposa FFA Boosters: $5,700 · EducationBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU SERVING THE PACIFIC SW FDN FOR ED & ENTREPENUER LEAD: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Environment$5,249,000Philanthropy$180,000Other$34,260Public Safety & Disaster$30,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$5,700Arts & Culture$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAPPY GOAT INC: $5,249,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetREAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC: $180,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetMariposa Fire Safe Council Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMARIPOSA COUNTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMariposa FFA Boosters: $5,700 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetManna House of Mariposa County: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU SERVING THE PACIFIC SW FDN FOR ED & ENTREPENUER LEAD: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMariposa Soccer League Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
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    How do I get to Cahalin Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cahalin Family 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 20 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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