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Community Assistance League Inc

The mission of the Community Assistance League (CAL)of Sandpoint is to support our community through education, service and philanthropy.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$182kPhilanthropy$116kEducation$90kArts & Culture$71kHealth$67kHuman Services$44kEnvironment$12kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $150,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $204,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Bonner Community Food Bank: $16k → 12%Bonner Community Food Bank: $15k → 12%Bonner Community Food Bank: $15k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $12k → 12%Angels Over Sandpoint: $10k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT: $10k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%Angels Over Sandpoint: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$729k · 14 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$729k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

64%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +55%
  • BC
    BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +73%
  • PO
    PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL
    4× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • VC
    Various Charitable Orgs
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • BG
    Bonner General Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +5%
  • MC
    MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
4
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
5
Aberdeen Senior Citizens of Bingham County Inc

We serve the senior citizens of Southern Bingham County, and the Citizens of Aberdeen, Idaho Meals on Wheels and congregate meals onsite.

Human Services
6
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
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7
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
8
Sandpoint Youth Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
Boise Basin Senior Citizens Inc

Provide Nutritious meals to citizens of East Boise County Most of our recipients are elderly or disabled

Human Services
10
Kootenai County Regional Air Support Inc

To provide air support for search and rescue and 1st responders to protect the community of Northern Idaho.

Crime & Legal
11
Belgrade Senior Center

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…

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12
South Fork Boise River Association

Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $196,981 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSVarious Charitable: $118,430 · OtherVarious CharitableCounty Schools: $90,277 · OtherCounty SchoolsSandpoint Area Seniors Inc: $84,701 · OtherSandpoint Area Seniors IncVarious Charitable Orgs: $64,660 · OtherVarious Charitable OrgsBONNER PARTNERS IN CARE CLINIC INC: $23,275 · Other+6 more: $53,120 · Other+6 moreBONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $84,091 · Human ServicesBONNER COMMUN…ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT: $25,000 · Human ServicesANGELS OVER S…PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $27,100 · Arts & CulturePanida Theater Committee Inc: $12,720 · Arts & CultureThe Festival at Sandpoint Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $6,200 · Arts & CulturePANHANDLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $5,869 · Arts & CultureIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $51,350 · PhilanthropyCommunity Cancer Services Inc: $16,600 · HealthBonner General Hospital Inc: $13,540 · HealthNAMI FAR NORTH IDAHO INC: $13,500 · HealthPRIEST LAKE FOOD BANK CORP: $13,600 · Food & NutritionSANDPOINT NORDIC CLUB INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsHelping Hands Healing Hearts Inc: $5,000 · Religion
Other$631,444Human Services$109,091Arts & Culture$64,389Philanthropy$51,350Health$43,640Food & Nutrition$13,600Recreation & Sports$7,500Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSandpoint Area Seniors Inc: $84,701 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetBONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $84,091 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $51,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $27,100 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetANGELS OVER SANDPOINT: $25,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCommunity Cancer Services Inc: $16,600 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPRIEST LAKE FOOD BANK CORP: $13,600 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBonner General Hospital Inc: $13,540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetNAMI FAR NORTH IDAHO INC: $13,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPanida Theater Committee Inc: $12,720 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Festival at Sandpoint Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSANDPOINT NORDIC CLUB INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBonner County Historical Society Inc: $6,320 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $6,200 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetClark Fork Area Senior Services Inc: $5,440 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHelping Hands Healing Hearts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationEquinox Foundation IncIdaho Community Found…The Robert I Wishnick…The Van Vleet Foundat…The Confidence Founda…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Hymowitz Family Found…Laura Moore Cunningha…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…
Innovia FoundationWA39.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Assistance League Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Assistance League Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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