How much did CALPINE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$861kHuman Services$395kFood & Nutrition$112kHealth$108kEducation$62kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kPublic Benefit$4kOther$603k

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

food banklakecarekernhandsplacerharvest

2021

covid pandemic

2023

youth healthhealth women'scivic

2024

youth healthhealth women'scivic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$21,540

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

HILL COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD$43,080
SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER$21,540
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$21,540
KIDS MEALS INC$21,540
THE ROSE$21,540
WOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC$21,540
CURE RTD FOUNDATION$21,540
WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC$21,540
THE RAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND$21,540
CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC$21,540
THE LAUREL'S ARMY FOUNDATION$21,540
THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC$21,540
PLEASANT HILL CHILDREN'S HOME$21,540

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 80% of those 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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$719k · 12 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$719k

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+48%

Still filing today

75%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

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CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +5%
TB
THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +28%
KM
KIDS MEALS INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +579%

Funded once

United Way of Greater Houston
one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue -36%
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +73%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARINgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +151%

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.

Central California Food Bank

Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc

The Food Bank's purpose is to collect and warehouse salvageable food and commodities and to distribute those items to various area social agencies which assist the needy within Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron counties.

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Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

West Texas Food Bank

The Food Bank is a 501c3 nonprofit, hunger relief organization that distributes donated purchased food to children, families, and seniors through a network of over 100 partner agencies in 19 counties in West Texas

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Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…

Food & Nutrition

California Association of Food Banks

To eliminate hunger in california.

Food & Nutrition

San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin county.

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Food Share Inc

Food share is dedicated to leading the fight against hunger in ventura county by distributing over 16 million meals during the fiscal year.

Food & Nutrition

Central Texas Food Bank Inc

The mission of the central texas food bank (ctfb) is to ensure equitable access to healthy food for all neighbors while strengthening the food system to build sustainable and thriving communities.

Food & Nutrition

Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant area food bank empowers communities to alleviate hunger and improve health.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Placer Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is The Rose. 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.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/62

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,742

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.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/60

Grantees still filing

50/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$860,700Other$618,990Human Services$394,950Food & Nutrition$112,250Health$108,080Education$61,540Youth Development$14,500

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.

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.

The Houston Food BankTX19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Houston Food Bank · Celanese Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Carmax Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The George Foundation · Feeding America · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy · California Foundation For · Employees of Community Fund

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 organisation CALPINE FOUNDATION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

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: THE RAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200290447 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 THE RAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Calpine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Calpine Foundation 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.

CALPINE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Calpine Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CALPINE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Calpine Foundation?

More from the funding graph