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· Private foundation
Callis Educational Fund
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$102k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants
11
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of Callis Educational Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
scholarships
2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 19 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$445k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Michigan Technical University$6,500
- Pratt Institutre$6,500
- University of Mary Hardin Baylor$6,500
- Henderson State University$6,500
- University of Texas$6,500
- Western Colorado University$6,500
- Lipscomb University$6,500
- Texas A and M$6,500
- Baylor University$6,500
- University of Central Arkansas$6,500
- Tennessee Technical University$6,500
- Willamette University$6,500
- Kankakee Community College$4,756
- Emerson College$3,250
- Nossi College of Art$3,250
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 72% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$131k · 11 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
6
Total granted
$131k
$36k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+22%
+24%
Still filing today
45%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
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
- LULipscomb University2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +18%
Western Colorado University2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +4%
Baylor University2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Texas at Austinone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PIPratt Instituteone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +24%
- MTMichigan Technological Universityone grant, 2020 · $7k
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
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
2
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
3
William Penn University
William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.
Education
4
William Peace University
Prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow.
Education
5
Western New England University
See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1
Education
6
Whitworth University
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars. recognized as one of the top regional colleges and…
Education
7
Widener University
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Education
8
Baldwin Wallace University
Baldwin wallace university provides undergraduate higher education leading to (see schedule o) the bachelor degree, and graduate education at the masters level in six fields.
Education
9
Parker University
Parker university is a leading healthcare educator, developing skilled and compassionate professionals in chiropractic, allied health and business-related fields.
Education
10
Washington and Lee University
See schedule owashington and lee university provides a liberal arts education to approximately 1,800 undergraduate students & offers jd & llm studies to approximately 400 law students each year.
Education
11
Upper Iowa University
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
Education
12
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Pratt Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$153,272Education$48,750Health$3,250
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Callis Educational Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Western Colorado University.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 840709935 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Western Colorado University, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Callis Educational Fund?
Find your warmest path to Callis Educational Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines