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California Caw Foundation at a glance

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California Caw Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$38kReligion$10kArts & Culture$9kCivil Rights$7kHuman Services$6kHealth$5kAnimals$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$354k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gary Atkinson Imagine Scholarship F$37,720
Friends of Ridhwan$3,000
Bandaloop$2,500
HMB Robotics Boys and Girls Club$1,030
Arthritis Foundation$525
American Cancer Society$409
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Tsuru for Solidarity: $5k → 15%HMB Robotics Boys and Girls Club: $1k → 7%Bandaloop: $3k → 10%SF AIDS Foundation: $3k → 10%American Civil Liberties Union Inc: $1k → 17%Gary Atkinson Imagine Scholarship F: $38k → 9%American Cancer Society: $500 → 13%Densho: $1k → 9%Bandaloop: $2k → 10%San Francisco SPCA: $1k → 10%American Cancer Society: $409 → 13%Family Bridges Inc: $1k → 10%San Francisco SPCA: $1k → 10%Arthritis Foundation: $525 → 13%Friends of Ridhwan: $4k → 10%The GLIDE Foundation: $500 → 10%American Cancer Society: $500 → 13%Friends of Ridhwan: $3k → 10%Japanese Americans for Justice: $5k → 10%Friends of Ridhwan: $2k → 10%AACRE: $3k → 10%Friends of Ridhwan: $1k → 10%AAWAA: $500 → 10%Eastside Arts Alliance: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 4 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$18k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RIDHWAN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $10k
  • PB
    Project Bandaloop
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue -20%
  • TS
    THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TF
    Tsuru for Solidarity Grant
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • JA
    Japanese Americans for Justice
    one 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.

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.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
4
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
5
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
8
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
9
Kearny Street Workshop Incorporated

Ksw makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. since 1972, ksw has nurtured the creative spirit, and offered an important platform for new voices to be heard -full statement on schedule o

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Asian Health Services

Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…

Health
12
Aids Service Center of Lower Manhattan Inc

Aids service center of lower manhattan, inc., d/b/a alliance for positive change ("alliance") is a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1990 with a central mission of helping low-income new yorkers living with hiv and other…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Aids Foundation; the most unlike its peers is EastSide Arts Alliance. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gary Atkinson Imagine Scholarship F: $37,720 · OtherGary Atkinson Imagine Scholarship FFRIENDS OF RIDHWAN: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RIDHWANTsuru for Solidarity Grant: $5,000 · OtherTsuru for Solidarity GrantIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJapanese Americans for Justice: $5,000 · OtherJapanese Americans for JusticeSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherAACRE: $2,500 · Other+4 more: $3,530 · OtherProject Bandaloop: $4,500 · Arts & CultureProject Band…EastSide Arts Alliance: $4,000 · Arts & CultureEastSide Art…DENSHO: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDENSHOTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,092 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,409 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $525 · HealthGLIDE FOUNDATION: $500 · Religion
Other$71,750Arts & Culture$9,500Animals$2,092Health$1,934Religion$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Bandaloop: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,092 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,409 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY BRIDGES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENSHO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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