· Private foundation
The Callum Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GARY SENISE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS INC | $124,437 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC | $100,000 |
| WILD CANID SURVIVAL RESEARCH CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| ELIZABETH TOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $75,000 |
| HAWTHORN HILL | $75,000 |
| MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL IOWA | $50,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| WARRIOR DOG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To provide a safe and nurturing environment for abandoned and neglected wolfdogs while educating the public about their unique needs and behavior.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Wayside prepares pets and people for the bond of their lives by protecting and caring for the pets under our watch; by collaborating with and supporting the community; and by advocating for and sharing the profound joy that pets bring to…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Paws for Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kiya Koda Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Council on Aging Services for Seniors ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER DEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE LIFE ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds KIYA KODA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Callum 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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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.