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Caliban Foundation

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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$218kReligion$95kHuman Services$44kHealth$39kInternational$25kEnvironment$9kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$910k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$50,000
School of the Arts Foundation Inc$10,000
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$10,000
Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation$10,000
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh$10,000
The Everglades Foundation$7,500
Aspen Valley Ski-Snowboard Club Inc$7,000
National Alliance for Eating Disorders$5,000
Make- a- wish Foundation of America$5,000
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$5,000
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$1,800
Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch$1,200
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania$1,000
Smile Train Inc$500
Shelter Island Fire Department Inc$250
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$286k · 9 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$286k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

33%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther

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

  • JM
    Jewish Museum Of New York
    3× · 2022–2024 · $160k
  • PB
    PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $34k
  • AW
    ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE FOR ST CHRISTOPER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
8
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
SantaFe Healthcare Inc

The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Palm Beach County Council of Firefighters Paramedics Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterPregnancy Support CentersChristian Outreach Ministri…Volunteer Fire & RescueChildhood Cancer SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Hospital SystemsDevelopmental Disabilities …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%44%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,732

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.

03the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
8/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jewish Museum Of New York — $160,000 · OtherJewish Museum Of New YorkHillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life — $50,000 · OtherHillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus LifePALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC — $33,800 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCANDY WARHOL MUSEUM — $30,000 · OtherANDY WARHOL MUSEUM+16 more — $54,005 · Other+16 moreJEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC — $28,000 · HealthJEWISH RESI…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $9,400 · HealthNATIONAL AL…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PR…GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,000 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Social SciencePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $9,000 · PhilanthropyPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentFriends of Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC — $1,000 · Environment
Other$327,805Health$45,400Arts & Culture$17,500International$16,000Social Science$15,000Philanthropy$12,000Environment$8,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $9,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACCESSCIRCLES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Caliban Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Caliban Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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