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Cmb 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.

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
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 FY2017–2024.

Animals$315kHealth$120kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$18kEducation$10kInternational$5k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
MICHIGAN PIT BULL EDUCATION PROJECT$10,000
OUTTA THE CAGE$10,000
ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC$10,000
TOGETHER WE RISE CORPORATION$10,000
PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$7,000
LILY'S LEGACY SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$5,000
COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
DOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$5,000
HEART AND ARMOR FOUNDATION$5,000
SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK$5,000
NORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE$5,000
YAQUI ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
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 (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5k → 7%HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5k → 7%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

MI
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 15% of Cmb 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, 67% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Cmb Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$325k · 15 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$325k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-21%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • OT
    OUTTA THE CAGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +116%
  • SC
    SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNDERDOG ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -28%
  • SH
    SAVING HUEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -88%
  • PO
    PUT ON THE BRAKES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -2%

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
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
2
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
3
Saved By Fate Inc

Dog rescue

Animals
4
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals
5
Furever Bully Love Rescue

we rescue last chance shelter dogs that are scheduled to be euthanized

Animals
6
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
7
Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock
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8
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
9
Who Rescued Who

Fostering and caring for dogs until they find their forever home. If medical care is needed a licensed veterinarian will be available to provide care.

—
10
Raskels Rescue
Animals
11
Broken Souls Rescue & Recovery Inc

We rescue abused and neglected dogs. we rehabilitate our dogs at our rescue sanctuary to prepare them to live a happy, healthy life in their new furever home

Animals
12
St Clouds Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reversed Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Craig Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%26%5–10yr20%41%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%34%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/33
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,945

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

28 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. 28 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OUTTA THE CAGE — $45,000 · AnimalsOUTTA THE CAGENORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE — $28,000 · AnimalsNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUELilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $20,000 · AnimalsLilys Legacy Senior Dog SanctuaryCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS — $15,000 · AnimalsCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERSREAL TIME RESCUE INC — $15,000 · AnimalsREAL TIME RESCUE INCSAVING ANIMALS & HEALING HEARTS INC — $15,000 · AnimalsSAVING ANIMALS & HEALING HEARTS INCSAVING HUEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN PIT BULL EDUCATION PROJECT — $10,000 · AnimalsAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary — $10,000 · AnimalsYaqui Animal Rescue — $10,000 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $7,000 · Animals+4 more — $20,000 · Animals+4 moreUNDERDOG ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · OtherUNDERDOG ALLIANCE INCLA ADOPT INC — $25,000 · OtherLA ADOPT INCCOWBOY AND ROUSSEAU ANIMAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCOWBOY AND ROUSSEAU ANIMAL ASSI…BFF PET RESCUE — $10,000 · OtherBFF PET RESCUEHOUNDS AND HEROES INC — $10,000 · OtherHOUNDS AND HEROES INCHIDDEN HEROES (ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION) — $8,000 · OtherHIDDEN HEROES (ELIZABETH DOLE F…EMPOWER AFRICAN CHILDREN — $5,000 · OtherLIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $5,000 · OtherEARTH ANGELS RESCUE — $5,000 · OtherFOSTER LOVE (AKA TOGETHER WE RISE) — $5,000 · OtherREVERSED RESCUE — $5,000 · OtherVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $8,000 · OtherVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INCSoi Dog Foundation USA — $5,000 · OtherCraig Hospital Foundation — $50,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Found…SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $32,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'…Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc — $5,000 · HealthGiant Steps Therapeu…Heart and Armor Foundation — $25,000 · Public BenefitTOGETHER WE RISE — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPUT ON THE BRAKES INC — $10,000 · EducationHONOR FLIGHT INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Animals$205,000Other$136,000Health$87,000Public Benefit$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$10,000Human Services$10,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUTTA THE CAGE — $45,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetUNDERDOG ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE — $28,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHeart and Armor Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREAL TIME RESCUE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSAVING ANIMALS & HEALING HEARTS INC — $15,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSAVING HUEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PIT BULL EDUCATION PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYaqui Animal Rescue — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWags and Walks — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPOWER AFRICAN CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIONEL S LEGACY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSTAND UP FOR PITS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA — $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.

Bhb FoundationThornton S Jr and Kat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Marion and Richard Gr…Network for GoodSempra FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Mightycause Charitabl…Duke Energy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…
Bhb FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bhb Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Marion and Richard Graham Foundation · Network for Good · Sempra Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Cmb 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Cmb Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cmb 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 35 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.

    Source object · view filing

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