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Colad Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF NEVADA COUNTY | $175,000 |
| FLOATING DOCTORS INC | $100,000 |
| ROWDY CREEK FISH HATCHERY INC | $55,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS RECEIVING HOME OF SACRAMENTO | $50,000 |
| OUTREACH UNLIMITED | $30,000 |
| ANIMAL PLACE | $25,000 |
| BARRY R KIRSCHNER WILFLIFE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CAMAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S ASSN | $22,000 |
| MARY KNOLL LAY MISSIONERS | $20,000 |
| VFW POST 4095 | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 101 | $14,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL OF VISTA | $13,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| VFW POST 63 BOISE | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FDFLOATING DOCTORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +130%
- FBFood Bank of Nevada County9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +173%
- PGProject Go Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $191k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SSSERENITY SERVES THE INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CRCHILDRENS RECEIVING HOME OFone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SMSUNRISE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Sierra Pacific picks up, treat and places injured and abandoned animals.
Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
Shelter Care Resources provides basic necessities to low income, homeless and foster families. We operate a food pantry, a clothing and hygiene resource center, and help individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.Our mission…
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue is a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on the Central Coast. We find homes for dogs whose guardians can no longer care for them and for senior dogs in shelters.
Dog rescue and adoption
Lovebugs rescue is a foster-based animal rescue located in southern california. we began our mission in october 2010 and focus on rescuing dogs from high kill shelters and neglect. we rescue all breeds and all ages. we provide all medical…
The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.
Casa Pacifica inspires hope and nurtures mental health and well-being of children, young adults, and families to realize their full potential.
Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that has rescued and found permanent, loving homes for Golden Retrievers and Golden Retriever mixes since its inception in 1994. Through the dedicated work of its foster…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation California Inc and the most unlike its peers is Floating Doctors Inc. 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.
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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FLOATING DOCTORS INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Nevada County ↗
- Who funds ROWDY CREEK FISH HATCHERY INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Project Go Inc ↗
- Who funds Outreach Unlimited ↗
- Who funds Stockton Shelter For The Homeless ↗
- Who funds Pacific Wildlife Care ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Place ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BARRY R KIRSHNER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bridgeway House ↗
- Who funds ESCUELA XOCHITL TONATIUH INC ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 101 ↗
- Who funds A CUP OF COLD WATER ↗
- Who funds SAMMIES FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISE GLEANERS FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Colad Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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