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Caufield Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$295k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.2MInternational$1.1MHealth$842kAnimals$468kPublic Safety & Disaster$450kFood & Nutrition$411kHuman Services$206kArts & Culture$186kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $957k
  • $250k+1 grant · $295k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$295,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$230,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$120,000
DESERT AIDS PROJECT$100,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$100,000
NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION$100,000
A SENSE OF HOME$57,000
SAFE AND SOUND$50,000
ARTS COMMUNITY COALITION NEVADA$25,000
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS$4,000
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 (FY20–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A SENSE OF HOME: $57k → 14%BAY AREA WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 10%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

WA
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
MS
TX

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 45 repeat orgs$929k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
74

Total granted

$4.2M
$843k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+3%

Still filing today

87%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +66%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +21%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $420k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • WC
    WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • TJ
    THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
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
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
8
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lotus Land 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Addiction Recovery ServicesCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Lgbtq+ Community SupportLocal History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and Pantries
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/97
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,468

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

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 126 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
55/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $955,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $450,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+4 more — $38,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $1,000,020 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE GR…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN — $200,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHENPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $143,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODJUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherJUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $65,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND — $55,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $50,000 · OtherFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $80,000 · OtherFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION I…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $117,500 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUN…A SENSE OF HOME — $57,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Other+64 more — $483,900 · Other+64 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $420,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …UCLA FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDA…+5 more — $14,500 · EducationWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $153,000 · AnimalsNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc — $135,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for Animals — $20,000 · AnimalsNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE — $15,000 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $15,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $13,000 · Animals+14 more — $29,750 · AnimalsDAP Health Inc — $110,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $100,000 · HealthDOCTORS OUTREACH INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE LONGEVITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $3,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $70,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X — $15,000 · Arts & CultureIndependent Arts & Media — $5,000 · Arts & CultureArhoolie Foundation — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $9,000 · Arts & Culture
International$1,543,000Public Benefit$1,000,020Other$1,396,900Education$514,500Animals$380,750Health$258,000Arts & Culture$149,000

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 budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $1,000,020 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $955,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $420,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $153,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $117,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAP Health Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC — $37,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS OUTREACH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDELTA HANDS FOR HOPE — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION — $12,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIZELL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHIRE HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUTTVILLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTransgender Law Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArhoolie Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…McNabb FoundationSalesforce FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The San Francisco Fou…Agilent Technologies …ImpactassetsincMcKesson Foundation I…The William & Flora H…The Each Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Impactassetsinc · McKesson Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Each 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 Caufield Family 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report 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.

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 126 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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