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· Private foundation
JOHN N CALLEY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$400k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$4.0MArts & Culture$40kEducation$30kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$81k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
buildchildrenyouthfoster carefree
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$400,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Center for Domestic Peace
Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.
Human Services
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.
Arts & Culture
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Healthy Relationships California
Healthy Relationships California works to improve the well-being of children by strengthening the relationship of parents by participating in marriage education and relationship skill classes.
Human Services
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All About Kids La
Philanthropy
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Catalyst for Peace
Philanthropy
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Forward Together
Forward Together unites communities to win rights, recognition and resources for allfamilies.We transform culture and policy to work for all of us nationwide. Since ourfounding in 1989, we have continually fought to dismantle the ways our…
Health
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Californians for Drug-Free Youth
Working in collaboration with individuals, agencies, and organizations to bring parents, youth, schools, and communities together to build and promote safe and healthy environments.
Health
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San Francisco Family Foundation
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CalMatters
To improve Californias democracy by making its government more transparent and accountable and giving Californians the information they need to understand and engage with that government.
Civil Rights
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Cal Voices
Cal voices provides peer support services fostering wellness and recovery for everyone through advocacy education and culturally relevant research.
Health
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California Human Trafficking
Crime & Legal
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Allies for Every Child Inc
Allies for Every Child prevents & mitigates the impact of childhood trauma (continues on Sch O) through comprehensive child and family services.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace Over Violence and the most unlike its peers is California Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$3,980,000Other$80,975Arts & Culture$40,000Education$30,000Human Services$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,000
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEACE4KIDS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING CULTURES MOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JR POSSE YOUTH EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
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.
California Community FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation JOHN N CALLEY 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FREE ARTS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 953252001 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FREE ARTS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to John N Calley Foundation?
Find your warmest path to John N Calley Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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