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Callahan Family Foundation Inc

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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$4.1MHuman Services$814kHealth$446kArts & Culture$350kEnvironment$180kReligion$20kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $296k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
$46,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Meta Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$1,999,797
MAMA2MAMA$607,594
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$350,039
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$200,583
THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT$95,000
FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICES$46,500
BNAI SIMCHA PRESCHOOL$25,317
GLOBAL HEALTH EXCHANGES$20,000
PASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER$10,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$5,000
FRIENDS IN DEED$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $794k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICES: $47k → 14%CHILD EDUCATION CENTER: $20k → 14%MAMA2MAMA: $608k → 14%MAMA2MAMA: $20k → 14%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 6 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +489% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$5.5M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+489%
+72%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +23%
  • 4T
    4TH TRIMESTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $628k · revenue +489% · 87% of their budget
  • TE
    THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $180k · revenue +493%

Funded once

  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +264%
  • CE
    Child Education Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT CONTROL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Childrens Center At Caltech

The center is a non-profit organization providing quality early education and care for infants, toddlers and preschool age children for the caltech and pasadena communities. caring, nurturing educators staff this outstanding program. the…

Human Services
2
Kiddie Kampus Cooperative Play School Inc

Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…

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3
Child Educational Center

The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.

Human Services
4
The Forager School

As a community, The Forager School is guided by a child-centered philosophy that puts play at the heart of everything we do. Located in rural Northern California we are devoted to fostering a deep connection between young children and the…

Education
5
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
6
Cypress School of San Francisco F/K/a Cow Hollow Preschool

Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.

Education
7
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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8
The Center for Early Education

The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…

Education
9
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
10
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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11
Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education
12
Pacoima Charter School

To create an environment that fosters a high quality educational experience for all children. we strive to prepare students for college and career by holding high academic expectations, nurturing positive social-emotional growth,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Earth Species Project. 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 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $4,044,491 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL+1 more: $5,000 · Education4TH TRIMESTER INC: $627,594 · Human Services4TH TRIMESTER I…Foothill Family Service: $146,403 · Human ServicesFoothill Family…+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $445,906 · OtherPLANNED PAREN…THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $180,000 · OtherTHE EARTH SPE…BNAI SIMCHA PRESCHOOL: $25,317 · Other+5 more: $65,000 · Other+5 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $350,039 · Youth DevelopmentPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$4,049,491Human Services$793,997Other$716,223Youth Development$350,039Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $4,044,491 over 2y, 3.8% of budget4TH TRIMESTER INC: $627,594 over 2y, 87% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $350,039 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $180,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFoothill Family Service: $146,403 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChild Education Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBABY2BABY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 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.

Thomas N Felgner Char…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thomas N Felgner Charitable FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas N Felgner Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Callahan Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Callahan Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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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