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Cal 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALCYON FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| TWO MAUDS | $50,000 |
| VERMONT STUDIO SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SCHWARTZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| HEART OF THE HAMPTONS | $22,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FDN | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $20,000 |
| PARRISH ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| EVELYN ALEXANDER WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $12,500 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MADOO GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HFHALCYON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $770k · revenue +121%
- TMTWO MAUDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +50%
- TATHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ARANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- KBKips Bay Boys & Girls Clubone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Wild bird fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that cares for the injured, ill and orphaned wild life of new york city. our mission is to provide veterinary care and rehabilitation to native and migrant wildlife and to educate new yorkers…
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Restoration Project and the most unlike its peers is Two Mauds Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWO MAUDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation Inc · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Cal Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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