California · Private foundation
The Candelaria Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $678k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $984k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Candelaria Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $668k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $805k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $645k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $660k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $285k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $630k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $193k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $798k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Steam Preservation Society | $722,500 | 6 | 42% |
| Center of Southwest Culture Inc | $510,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum | $200,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Railroaders Heritage Corporation | $150,000 | 2 | 4% |
| New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society | $105,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Winslow Arts Trust | $105,000 | 3 | 30% |
| Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Historic Pullman Foundation Dba Friends of Pullman | $95,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Chinese Historical Society of America | $70,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Candelaria Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Candelaria Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Candelaria Fund 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.
About The Candelaria Fund
- How much does The Candelaria Fund give?
- The Candelaria Fund reported 15 grants totaling $677,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Candelaria Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Community Improvement (20%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are The Candelaria Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nashville Steam Preservation Society ($723k), Center of Southwest Culture Inc ($510k), Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum ($200k).
- Does The Candelaria Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Candelaria Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Candelaria Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is The Candelaria Fund based?
- The Candelaria Fund is based in CA.
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