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Calpine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$302k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$867kHuman Services$418kFood & Nutrition$329kHealth$276kYouth Development$94kEducation$62kCrime & Legal$48kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$21,540
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILL COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD$43,080
CURE RTD FOUNDATION$21,540
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$21,540
THE ROSE$21,540
KIDS MEALS INC$21,540
THE LAUREL'S ARMY FOUNDATION$21,540
THE RAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND$21,540
WOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC$21,540
SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER$21,540
THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC$21,540
WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC$21,540
PLEASANT HILL CHILDREN'S HOME$21,540
CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC$21,540
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $1k → 6%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 12%COMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $3k → 18%ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $1k → 6%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $5k → 7%WOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC: $15k → 9%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $6k → 14%WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 27%NH FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $2k → 8%WOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC: $25k → 9%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 27%GUARDIAN CARE CENTER: $3k → 12%MIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER INC: $6k → 17%EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $7k → 8%WOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC: $22k → 9%THE LAKE WHITNEY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $13k → 16%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $22k → 16%WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC: $22k → 27%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $25k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $22k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $21k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $26k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $22k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $18k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
WV
DE
AR
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$759k · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +29% 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

12
72

Total granted

$759k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & 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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +106%
  • WT
    WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +8%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • United Way of Greater Houston
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue -16%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARINgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +99%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE RIO GRAND VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $31k

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
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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4
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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5
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
6
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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7
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County

Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.

Food & Nutrition
8
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc

To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Food Depot

The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.

Human Services
11
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Spca of Lake County. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesUnited Way Affiliates
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%44%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%48%55yr+

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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,731

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

70 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. 70 of the 88 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
57/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United Way of Greater Houston — $750,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater HoustonTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $80,300 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION+3 more — $30,400 · PhilanthropyCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $72,540 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NI…PLEASANT HILL CHILDREN'S HOME — $71,840 · OtherPLEASANT HILL CHILDREN'S HO…THE ROSE — $61,540 · OtherTHE ROSEHILL COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD — $43,080 · OtherHILL COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIV…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $32,200 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOM…FOOD BANK OF THE RIO GRAND VALLEY INC — $30,800 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE RIO GRAND …SHAPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+36 more — $187,950 · Other+36 moreWOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC — $71,540 · Human ServicesWOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDA…THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $67,540 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUB…KIDS' MEALS INC — $65,040 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCWOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC — $61,540 · Human ServicesWOODS & WATER KIDS AD…SHAPE Community Center — $46,540 · Human ServicesSHAPE Community Cente…MEALS ON WHEELS — $25,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS+13 more — $65,250 · Human Services+13 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $71,540 · HealthSHRINERS …LAURELS ARMY FOUNDATION — $61,540 · HealthLAURELS A…Cure RTD Foundation — $46,540 · HealthCure RTD …FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $30,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $24,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $15,050 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $8,700 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $8,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of North Alabama Inc — $5,200 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FOODBANK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionYuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $6,300 · Food & NutritionRAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND — $61,540 · EducationTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$860,700Other$524,950Human Services$402,450Health$179,620Food & Nutrition$127,250Education$61,540Youth Development$14,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $750,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $80,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $72,540 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $71,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION INC — $71,540 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $67,540 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $65,040 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRAY E MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND — $61,540 over 3y, 91% of budgetWOODS & WATER KIDS ADVENTURES INC — $61,540 over 3y, 12% of budgetLAURELS ARMY FOUNDATION — $61,540 over 3y, 62% of budgetTHE ROSE — $61,540 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHAPE Community Center — $46,540 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCure RTD Foundation — $46,540 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $32,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFeeding America — $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $15,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA — $12,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE WHITNEY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE DBA OUR DAILY BREAD WHITNEY FOOD BANK — $12,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $8,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASON-DIXON COMMUNITY SERVICES — $7,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY — $7,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC — $5,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFood Bank of North Alabama Inc — $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission — $5,000 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.

The PG&E Corporation …Celanese FoundationThe Houston Food BankCalifornia Foundation…Carmax FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Union Pacific Foundat…Shell USA Company Fou…The George FoundationFeeding AmericaSutter Valley Hospita…The Albertsons Compan…
The PG&E Corporation FoundationCA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Celanese Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Carmax Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Union Pacific Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The George Foundation · Feeding America · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The Albertsons Companies Foundation

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Guardian Care Center Inc — 77% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Calpine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Calpine Foundation 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 88 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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