· Public charity
Community Assistance League Inc
The mission of the Community Assistance League (CAL)of Sandpoint is to support our community through education, service and philanthropy.
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.
The 9 grants below total $150,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $204,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Various Charitable | $65,830 |
| Sandpoint Area Seniors | $25,440 |
| Bonner Community Food Bank | $16,091 |
| County Schools | $15,270 |
| NAMI Far North Idaho | $6,000 |
| KRFY Panhandle Community Radio | $5,869 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Bonner Partners in Care Clinic Inc | $5,000 |
| Community Cancer Svcs | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SASandpoint Area Seniors Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +55%
- BCBONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +73%
- POPEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL4× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- VCVarious Charitable Orgsone grant, 2023 · $65k
- BGBonner General Hospital Incone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +5%
- MCMEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +28%
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.
Museum
We serve the senior citizens of Southern Bingham County, and the Citizens of Aberdeen, Idaho Meals on Wheels and congregate meals onsite.
PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: We are committed to providing a safe, positive, creative environment where teens are able to relax, socialize and participate in both supervised and self-directed activities designed to develop leadership qualities,…
Provide Nutritious meals to citizens of East Boise County Most of our recipients are elderly or disabled
To provide air support for search and rescue and 1st responders to protect the community of Northern Idaho.
The Mission of the Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…
Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Memorial Community Center. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds Community Cancer Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIEST LAKE FOOD BANK CORP ↗
- Who funds Bonner General Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI FAR NORTH IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Panida Theater Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds The Festival at Sandpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT NORDIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Bonner County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Clark Fork Area Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO PANHANDLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Healing Hearts 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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Equinox Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Robert I Wishnick Foundation Dba the William Wishnick Foundation · The Van Vleet Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Hymowitz Family Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Community Assistance League Inc 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.