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Cuyamaca Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$107kPhilanthropy$84kHuman Services$75kCivil Rights$71kArts & Culture$70kRecreation & Sports$61kInternational$48kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $175k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LARRY CAMPBELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (SEADOC SOCIETY UC DAVIS FNDN)$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
YEEHAW INDIGENOUS ARTIST COLLECTIVE$35,000
CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN$35,000
BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE$35,000
SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA$1,500
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 (FY20–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOTHER NATION: $23k → 9%UTOPIA WA: $24k → 9%UTOPIA WA: $23k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $12k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $24k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $12k → 9%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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 6 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
26

Total granted

$252k
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

83%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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

  • SP
    SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2023–2026 · $66k · revenue +126%
  • WU
    WAKULIMA USA
    2× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • BF
    BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2020–2026 · $47k · revenue +911%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • DR
    DUWAMISH RIVER COMM COALITION
    one grant, 2025 · $24k
  • SS
    Shared Spaces Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue -65%
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
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
2
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
3
Coast Salish Youth Coalition

To cultivate the next generation of culturally engaged environmental stewards.

Environment
4
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
5
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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6
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
7
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
8
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
—
9
Reclaiming Our Greatness

Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.

Housing & Shelter
10
Seattle Good Business Network Dba Good Business Network of Washington

Seattle Good Business Network connects and inspires people to buy, produce, and invest locally, so that everyone has a meaningful stake in the local economy.

Community Improvement
11
The Common Acre

The common Acre restores relationships between people and the land through ecology, agriculture and art.

Arts & Culture
12
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Seattle; the most unlike its peers is Wakulima Usa. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $36,200 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURELARRY CAMPBELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (SEADOC SOCIETY UC DAVIS FNDN): $35,000 · OtherLARRY CAMPBELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (SEADOC SOCIETY UC DAVI…CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN: $35,000 · OtherCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUNYEEHAW INDIGENOUS ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $35,000 · OtherYEEHAW INDIGENOUS ARTIST COLLECTIVEIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDUWAMISH RIVER COMM COALITION: $24,000 · OtherDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $24,000 · OtherPACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH BOARD: $24,000 · OtherSEATTLE INDIAN SVC COMMISSION: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $23,000 · OtherDETECTIVE COOKIE CHESS PARK: $21,000 · OtherSKYWAY COALITION: $21,000 · OtherRAINIER BEACH LINK2LAKE: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherShared Spaces Foundation: $24,000 · OtherNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $24,000 · Other+5 more: $53,700 · Other+5 moreUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $47,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITO…CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $24,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE …Mother Nation: $23,000 · Human ServicesMother NationMOTHER AFRICA: $12,200 · Human ServicesMOTHER AFRICAHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $12,000 · Human ServicesHORN OF AFRICA…WAKULIMA USA: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE: $21,000 · Food & NutritionSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $66,000 · Recreation & SportsRed Eagle Soaring: $23,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA RIVER INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS: $23,000 · Arts & CulturePan African Center For Empowerment Inc: $12,200 · Arts & CultureBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE: $47,000 · Science & TechSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $24,000 · EnvironmentGot Green: $12,200 · Environment
Other$522,900Human Services$118,200Food & Nutrition$71,000Recreation & Sports$66,000Arts & Culture$58,200Science & Tech$47,000Environment$36,200

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 budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $66,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWAKULIMA USA: $50,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE: $47,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $47,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $36,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetShared Spaces Foundation: $24,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $24,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRed Eagle Soaring: $23,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS: $23,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMother Nation: $23,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE: $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $12,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGot Green: $12,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA: $12,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPan African Center For Empowerment Inc: $12,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Seattle FoundationSocial Justice Fund N…Philanthropy NorthwestUnited Way of King Co…Front and CenteredInatai FoundationThe Russell Family Fo…The Satterberg Founda…The Schmidt Family Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Renton Regional Commu…The Bullitt Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA34.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Philanthropy Northwest · United Way of King County · Front and Centered · Inatai Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Renton Regional Community Fndn · The Bullitt Foundation

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 Cuyamaca Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cuyamaca Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cuyamaca Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cuyamaca 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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