How much does Caithness Foundation give?

Caithness Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Caithness Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are International (24%), Environment (18%), Science & Tech (13%).

Who are Caithness Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Oxfam-America Inc ($91k), Coalition for Children ($50k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($34k).

Does Caithness Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Caithness Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Caithness Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Stanley W Watson Foundation, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Caithness Foundation based?

Caithness Foundation is based in MA.

Caithness Foundation

Caithness Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Caithness Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$84k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$152kEnvironment$113kScience & Tech$83kHealth$72kHuman Services$54kEducation$39kAnimals$38kArts & Culture$28kOther$0

02FY2026 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k45 grants · $74k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,700

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OXFAM AMERICA	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION	$4,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF	$4,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER	$3,500
THE COALITION FOR CHILDREN	$3,500
THE ICSEE	$2,000
FALMOUTH FUND OF THE CC FOUNDATION	$2,000
LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES	$2,000
RED CROSS	$2,000
YMCA OF CAPE COD	$2,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$2,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON	$2,000
THE POPULATION COUNCIL	$2,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE	$2,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$684k · 49 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$684k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+73%

Still filing today

69%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsInternationalHealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2018–2026 · $34k · revenue +89%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
8× · 2019–2026 · $26k · revenue +55%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
7× · 2020–2026 · $21k · revenue +123%

Funded once

GC
Green Center Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +73%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $2k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

Rare

Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc; the most unlike its peers is Green Center Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

26/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$304,900International$177,350Human Services$64,400Health$57,150Environment$45,900Animals$44,400Education$24,000

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

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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Harken Foundation · Lovell Charitable Foundation · Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc · The Future Hope Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · The Baltimore Family Fund

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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