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Cindy V Callaway 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
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 FY20202025.

Animals$163kEnvironment$80kHealth$20kHuman Services$19kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$5kPublic Benefit$2kEducation$1k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$852k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$9,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY$9,000
THE LIVING DESERT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
GABRIELS ANGELS$4,000
THE HUMANE FARMING ASSOC$4,000
COMPANIONS FOR HEROES$3,000
ANIMAL SAMARITANS$3,000
COACHELLA ANIMAL NETWORK$3,000
ASPCA$3,000
PARADISE DREAMS ANIMAL SANCUARY$1,000
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 (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%GABRIELS ANGELS: $4k → 11%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $6k → 14%GABRIELS ANGELS: $4k → 11%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%GABRIELS ANGELS: $3k → 11%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%GABRIELS ANGELS: $2k → 11%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%GABRIELS ANGELS: $2k → 11%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $1k → 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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$275k · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$275k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+66%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +67%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +28%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +66%

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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
3
Animal Angels
4
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
5
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals
6
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
11
Last Chance for Animals

Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.

Animals
12
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Farming Association and the most unlike its peers is Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Humane World for Animals Inc — $54,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncParadise Dreams Animal Sanctuary — $31,000 · AnimalsParadise Dreams Animal SanctuaryHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $20,500 · AnimalsHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATIONTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $15,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY …Animal Samaritans — $13,500 · AnimalsAnimal SamaritansWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $51,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCLIVING DESERT THE — $29,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT THECompanions for Heroes — $16,000 · Human ServicesCompanions …GABRIELS ANGELS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesGABRIELS AN…Individual grant recipient — $14,500 · OtherIndividual…THE SALVATION ARMY — $4,000 · OtherTHE SALVAT…Eisenhower Medical Center — $5,000 · OtherEisenhower…PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,000 · OtherPAWS FOR P…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherCOACHELLA ANIMAL NETWORK — $13,000 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 · InternationalFeeding America — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$134,000Environment$80,000Human Services$31,000Other$26,500Philanthropy$13,000International$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $54,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetParadise Dreams Animal Sanctuary — $31,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCompanions for Heroes — $16,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Samaritans — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA ANIMAL NETWORK — $13,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Cindy V Callaway 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to Cindy V Callaway Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cindy V Callaway 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 17 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.

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