· Private foundation
The Cairn Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO | $1,000,000 |
| COOMBS OUTDOORS | $40,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN INDIANA | $35,000 |
| TETON ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- TDThe Doug Coombs Foundation6× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue ×12
- BIBelieve in a Dream Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +92% · 30% of their budget
- AIACRES Inc4× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +370%
Funded once
- DCDEKALB CENTRAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +58%
- OOOUT OF A JAM INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +7%
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.
LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.
At Camp Tuku, our mission is to provide a mindfulness approach to the camp experience for kids; a program designed to integrate the mind, body, and heart, giving kids skills early in life to help them nurture inner resilience. With a focus…
Research, education, and action that enhance the sustainability, resilience, and transformation of human relationships with the environment.
Star Lake Wilderness Camp provides an outdoor education, recreation and living experience where youth can unplug and grow in their physical, social and mental health. We intentionally welcome youth who are traditionally underserved, have…
A nonprofit organization rooted in the wood river valley, idaho basecamp helps develop resilience, confidence, and connection in youth through adventure, exploration, and intentional play in the outdoors.
Tahoe ability program (tap) is creating inclusion, independence and advancement for people with disabilities within their community.
Girl scouts of colorado prepares girls and adults to create unique leadership paths, ignite change, and share a worldwide sisterhood through traditions and new experiences. girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character,…
Jackson hole nordic alliance connects people & winter trails. we are the resource hub for local nordic, fat bike, snowshoe & trail information. we help build the winter trails community & promote responsible recreation.
EDGE Outdoors is a powerful initiative addressing the health disparities faced by Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color (cis, trans, queer) by dismantling systemic barriers to wellness and outdoor recreation, particularly within snow…
CWTA seeks to preserve, protect, and promote mountain biking, trail running, hiking and equestrian access on public and publicly accessible private lands. Through effective communication and education, we advocate for diverse use…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
- Who funds Believe in a Dream Inc ↗
- Who funds ACRES Inc ↗
- Who funds TETON ADAPTIVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC ↗
- Who funds SAM'S WISH INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Shelters ↗
- Who funds AMANI FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUT OF A JAM INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
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 The Cairn Foundation 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.
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