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Catena 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.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$52MPublic Benefit$24MEducation$14MPhilanthropy$14MCivil Rights$13MInternational$6.9MHuman Services$4.9MHealth$4.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $262k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+36 grants · $23M
$180,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$596M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VENTURE FUND$3,250,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$3,000,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT$1,150,000
DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE$1,000,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000,000
THIRD WAY INSTITUTE$1,000,000
POLICY IMPACT (NAME CHANGE IN 2025 TO CONTINA IMPACT)$945,000
ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT$850,000
HOPEWELL FUND$775,000
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL$600,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$550,000
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE$550,000
EQUIS INSTITUTE$500,000
ISSUE ONE$500,000
WESTERN STATES CENTER$450,000
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 (FY19–24, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ: $50k → 11%DEFINE AMERICAN: $325k → 14%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICA: $100k → 14%NAEVA: $60k → 14%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $550k → 17%WELCOMING AMERICA: $125k → 14%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 9%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $23k → 26%SEEDS OF HARMONY INC: $79k → 28%DEFINE AMERICAN: $175k → 14%NAEVA: $40k → 14%HOPI FOUNDATION: $3k → 26%HOPI FOUNDATION: $3k → 26%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $325k → 10%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $200k → 14%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $3k → 26%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $250k → 10%HOPI FOUNDATION: $3k → 26%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $132k → 8%FLAGSTAFF YOUTH RIDERS: $105k → 16%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $3k → 26%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE: $125k → 10%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $850k → 17%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $120k → 8%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $300k → 17%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 8%FLAGSTAFF YOUTH RIDERS: $101k → 16%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $22k → 8%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $150k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $75k → 17%FLAGSTAFF YOUTH RIDERS: $50k → 16%FLAGSTAFF YOUTH RIDERS: $39k → 16%REFUGEE COUNCIL USA: $265k → 14%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Catena Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 17% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Catena Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$108M · 163 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

163 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 106 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

163
104

Total granted

$108M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2019–2023 · $9.6M · revenue +139%
  • WR
    Western Resource Advocates
    5× · 2019–2023 · $6.4M · revenue +6%
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +67% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -4%
  • FS
    FRONTLINE SUPPORT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.8M
  • FP
    FOUNDATIN PARA EL PROGRESO DE LA REGIN BOGOT
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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12
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Kapor Foundation. 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 backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Development ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…United Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …
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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/239
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,326

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

228 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. 228 of the 301 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
225/228
Grantees still filing
146/228
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,573,750 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC…NEW VENTURE FUND — $6,250,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,000,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $3,120,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDAdvanced Energy Institute — $1,750,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND — $1,550,000 · EnvironmentDEPLOYUS INC — $1,355,000 · Environment+24 more — $11,455,126 · Environment+24 moreAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $2,150,000 · OtherNEEM FOUNDATION — $1,837,114 · OtherFRONTLINE SUPPORT INC — $1,751,304 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND — $2,645,000 · Other+95 more — $42,567,751 · Other+95 moreASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC — $3,266,667 · EducationASPEN GLOBAL …Civic Nation — $2,200,000 · EducationCivic NationDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $2,175,000 · EducationDEFENDING DEM…CONTINA IMPACT — $2,122,750 · EducationCONTINA IMPAC…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,851,427 · EducationCOLORADO STAT…FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,300,000 · EducationFWDUS EDUCATI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $609,900 · Education+11 more — $3,705,471 · Education+11 morePROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $1,400,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $675,000 · Civil RightsInnovation Law Lab — $615,986 · Civil RightsJustice Action Center — $555,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $500,000 · Civil RightsNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND — $500,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $465,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC — $430,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $400,000 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 · Civil RightsColorado Freedom of Info Council — $395,520 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $387,500 · Civil RightsREFUGEE CONGRESS — $380,000 · Civil Rights+13 more — $3,080,000 · Civil RightsSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $4,550,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE — $1,500,000 · Public BenefitWESTERN STATES CENTER — $1,000,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $690,000 · Public Benefit+9 more — $2,356,686 · Public BenefitWestern Resource Advocates — $6,405,116 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $600,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $240,000 · Crime & LegalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 · InternationalTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $700,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $500,000 · InternationalADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $450,000 · InternationalGlobal Response Management Inc — $320,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300,000 · International+1 more — $150,000 · International
Environment$39,053,876Other$50,951,169Education$17,231,215Civil Rights$11,184,006Public Benefit$10,096,686Crime & Legal$7,245,116International$7,240,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,573,750 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $6,405,116 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $6,250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $4,550,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC — $3,266,667 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $3,120,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $2,645,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Nation — $2,200,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $2,175,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $2,150,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT — $2,122,750 over 4y, 18% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,851,427 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFRONTLINE SUPPORT INC — $1,751,304 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute — $1,750,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $1,550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetISSUE ONE — $1,500,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $1,400,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGRAND CANYON YOUTH INC — $1,377,220 over 6y, 31% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $1,375,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC — $1,355,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $1,350,040 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,300,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER — $1,000,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $983,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWELCOMING AMERICA INC — $950,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION — $850,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $807,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $805,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $785,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAspen Journalism — $729,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetEnvironmental Policy Innovation Center — $709,989 over 2y, 26% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $700,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $700,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $700,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetELECTRIFICATION COALITION FOUNDATION — $692,503 over 3y, 10% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $690,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $680,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $675,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $647,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInnovation Law Lab — $615,986 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $609,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $608,000 over 5y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CONTINA IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRONTLINE SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds Advanced Energy Institute ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DEPLOYUS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE VOICES PROJECT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WELCOMING AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗

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.

United States Energy …The William & Flora H…New Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncHopewell FundTides FoundationDemocracy Fund IncFoundation to Promote…Resources Legacy FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Windward Fund
United States Energy FoundationCA53.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Resources Legacy Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Windward 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 organization Catena 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Chiloquin Visions in Progress — 15% of income from government
  • Environmental Policy Innovation Center — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Catena Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Catena 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 301 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home