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Calico Center

Calico's mission is to achive justice and healing for abused children.

$1.6M
Granted FY2022
41
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Human Services$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.3MHealth$716kPublic Safety & Disaster$166kYouth Development$77kPublic Benefit$74kEducation$54kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2022 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $763k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $778k
$41,257
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES$75,000
CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE$75,000
FELTON INSTITUTE$75,000
CASA OF MONTEREY CITY$75,000
UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT$74,979
MISSSEY$52,905
SAN BERNARDINO SEXUAL ASSAULT SVC$50,000
CHILD ADVOCATES SILICON VALLEY$50,000
EAST BAY CHILDREN'S LAW OFFICES INC$50,000
CASA SANTA BARBARA CITY$50,000
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVERS$50,000
FAMILY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$50,000
POSITIVE RESULTS CENTER$50,000
NAPA-SOLANO SANESART$49,242
ALAMEDA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CTR$48,577
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $602k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $75k → 9%CHILDREN'S FUND: $9k → 14%SAVING ALL CHILDREN: $32k → 19%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP-MADERA CNTY: $9k → 22%THE HEART MATTERS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $31k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $49k → 14%TAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 18%FAMILY HEALING CENTER: $13k → 19%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 8%THE HEART MATTERS FOSTER FAMILY AGE: $10k → 14%FAMILY HEALING CENTER: $10k → 19%SAVING ALL CHILDREN: $9k → 19%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $6k → 10%NAPA-SOLANO SANESART: $49k → 10%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $40k → 14%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $35k → 14%UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your 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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 21 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
45

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

86%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +9%
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $99k · revenue +239%
  • CI
    CALM INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $87k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • YC
    YOLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFIC
    one grant, 2021 · $83k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES CENTER - ALCOHOL & DRUG
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • PC
    PACIFIC CLINICSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +193%

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

04Your 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
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
The Childrens House

To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.

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3
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
4
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
5
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
6
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
7
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

—
8
Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc

The mission of the Mountain Child Advocacy Center is to prevent harm, protect children and heal families through best practice programs and community collaboration.

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9
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…

Human Services
10
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
11
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Luis Obispo County Child Abuse Prevention Council Dba Cfsslo and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%41%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr12%13%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
14%
18,306/129,620

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT — $130,347 · OtherCITY OF OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENTYOLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFIC — $82,747 · OtherLOS ANGELES CENTER - ALCOHOL & DRUG — $75,000 · OtherCASA OF MONTEREY CITY — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherFelton Institute — $75,000 · OtherMLK HEALTH & WELLNESS CDC — $75,000 · OtherHUMAN SER DEPT COUNTY OF SONOMA — $67,432 · Other+42 more — $1,041,561 · Other+42 moreCalifornia Alliance of Caregivers — $124,790 · HealthCalifornia Alliance…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,911 · HealthPALOMAR HEALTH FOUN…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $84,000 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOS…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $74,587 · HealthChildren's Hospital…Family Paths Inc — $73,754 · HealthFamily Paths IncRape Counseling Services of Fresno — $58,549 · HealthRape Counseling Ser…The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower — $56,583 · HealthThe Barbara Sinatra…Community Violence Solutions — $55,510 · HealthCommunity Violence …LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $27,228 · Health+1 more — $3,648 · HealthFORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDREN…PACIFIC CLINICS — $75,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSCalifornia Parenting Institute — $75,000 · Human ServicesCalifornia Parenti…TAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FAMILY SE…UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC — $74,979 · Human ServicesUNITED AMERICAN IN…SAVING ALL CHILDREN DBA FAMILY HEALING CENTER — $64,374 · Human ServicesSAVING ALL CHILDRE…NAPA SOLANO SANESART — $49,242 · Human ServicesNAPA SOLANO SANESA…KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $48,664 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FA…Human Options Inc — $43,802 · Human ServicesHuman Options IncTHE HEART MATTERS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $40,800 · Human ServicesTHE HEART MATTERS …+3 more — $23,815 · Human ServicesEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $122,807 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY CHILDR…CALM INC — $87,000 · Crime & LegalCALM INCEMPOWER TEHAMA — $65,760 · Crime & LegalEMPOWER TEHAMAMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH — $52,905 · Crime & LegalMOTIVATING INSP…POSITIVE RESULTS CENTER — $50,000 · Crime & LegalPOSITIVE RESULT…KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County — $50,000 · Crime & LegalKidsFirst Child…Helpline Youth Counseling Inc — $48,582 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth …ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $28,689 · Crime & Legal+4 more — $40,500 · Crime & Legal+4 moreCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $124,998 · Civil RightsJUSTICE AT LAST INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $26,755 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER — $98,646 · Youth DevelopmentLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $27,976 · Education
Other$1,697,087Health$659,560Human Services$645,676Crime & Legal$546,243Civil Rights$201,753Youth Development$133,646Education$27,976

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 budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $124,998 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCalifornia Alliance of Caregivers — $124,790 over 2y, 27% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $122,807 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,911 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER — $98,646 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCALM INC — $87,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $84,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC — $75,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Parenting Institute — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFelton Institute — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC — $74,979 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $74,587 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Paths Inc — $73,754 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEMPOWER TEHAMA — $65,760 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAVING ALL CHILDREN DBA FAMILY HEALING CENTER — $64,374 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetRape Counseling Services of Fresno — $58,549 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower — $56,583 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Violence Solutions — $55,510 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH — $52,905 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPartners Against Violence Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPOSITIVE RESULTS CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetShasta County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFamily Assistance Program — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUSTICE AT LAST INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCitrus Counseling Services Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNAPA SOLANO SANESART — $49,242 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $48,664 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc — $48,582 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION — $46,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTime For Change Foundation — $44,736 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Options Inc — $43,802 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HEART MATTERS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $40,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $35,683 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAPA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES — $31,137 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $28,689 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $27,976 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $27,228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $26,755 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL DBA CFSSLO — $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S FUND INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center For Child Abuse Assessment and Treatment — $9,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MADERA COUNTY INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…ValorusPublic Health Institu…Weingart FoundationNational Children's A…East Bay Community Fo…California Physicians…Foundation for Califo…California Foundation…The California Endowm…California Fire Safe …
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA51.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Valorus · Public Health Institute · Weingart Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Foundation for California Community Colleges · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The California Endowment · California Fire Safe Council 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 Calico Center 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your 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
    31report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Calico Center?

    Find your warmest path to Calico Center 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 91 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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