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John N Calley Foundation at a glance

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John N Calley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of John N Calley Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to California Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.0MArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$35kYouth Development$28kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$400,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOGETHER WE RISE: $8k → 10%CONNECTING CULTURES MOBILE MUSEUM: $10k → 14%HEART OF LOS ANGELES: $18k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $550k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $550k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $550k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $550k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $480k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKES: $475 → 14%JR POSSE YOUTH EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM: $10k → 14%THE HARMONY PROJECT: $30k → 14%FREE ARTS: $40k → 14%PEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $15k → 14%PEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $10k → 14%BAFTA: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10k → 14%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 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.

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Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
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All About Kids La
Philanthropy
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Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
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Champions in Service San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles

Provide counseling, gang prevention and intervention services, case management, athletic activities, job readiness training and development and other services to disadvantaged youth in the san fernando valley and greater los angeles area.

Crime & Legal
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Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
9
Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County

Our organization inspires and empowers girls in grades 3-8 through a program that combines physical activity with social-emotional learning. Participants build confidence, develop life skills, and foster healthy habits while training for…

Youth Development
10
Southern California Crossroads

To provide safety and healing for individuals and communities who have been impacted by trauma and caused by violence.

Crime & Legal
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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
12
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum. 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

11 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. 11 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,980,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $475 · PhilanthropyPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $25,000 · OtherCONNECTING CULTURES MOBILE MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 · OtherJR POSSE YOUTH EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherBAFTA: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $2,500 · OtherFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHarmony Project: $30,000 · EducationHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACE 4 KIDS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER WE RISE: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$3,980,475Other$62,500Arts & Culture$40,000Education$30,000Youth Development$18,000Human Services$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,980,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHarmony Project: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE 4 KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJR POSSE YOUTH EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $475 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA15× 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to John N Calley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John N Calley 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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