· Private foundation
Calftech
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN TRUCK AND HISTORICAL SOCIE | $139 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATAMERICAN TRUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · $126k · revenue +32%
- MTMSU TECH HOSPITAL3× · 2017–2019 · $7k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE COMMUNITY VETERINARY2× · 2019–2020 · $4k
Funded once
- NONORTH OAKS ANIMAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SCST CLAIR COUNTY 4H & YOUTH FAIRone grant, 2021 · $6k
- AYARMADA YOUTH LIVESTOCKone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
Caring for the health and well-being of various animals - mainly dogs and cats.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
Provide for homeless pets, adopt serv
To improve the welfare of animals in ogemaw county.
To rescue, maintain, and place domestic animals abandoned in kill-shelters or discarded by volume breeders and to raise funds in order to accomplish our mission.
To rescue and re-home abandoned companion animals. to educate owners on responsible pet ownership.
To prevent cruelty and abuse to animals
Animal rescue
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance to stray/unwanted animals in the metro detroit area. provide adoption services for families looking to adopt and care for an animal.
Provide care and housing for animals
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment and responsible care of animals in west michigan through education, example, placement and protection.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN TRUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GODS HELPING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Calftech funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Calftech. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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