How much did THE CANDELARIA FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE CANDELARIA FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

cumbres toltecsteam

2019

—

2020

steam

2021

—

2022

museumsansteam

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $25k
$10k–50k7 grants · $140k
$50k–250k7 grants · $650k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

EAST BROAD TOP FOUNDATION$200,000
CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC$100,000
WISCASSET WATERVILLE & FARMINGTON RR$100,000
CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE$75,000
BAY AREA ELECTRIC RAILROAD ASSOCIATION$75,000
RAILROADERS MEMORIAL MUSEUM$50,000
OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$50,000
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION$35,000
FRIENDS OF THE CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RR$30,000
NEW MEXICO HERITAGE RAIL$20,000
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING$20,000
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE RAILROAD MUSEUM$10,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY$10,000
BELTRAMI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 27 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+13%

Still filing today

44%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NS
NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY
6× · 2017–2023 · $723k · revenue +0% · 42% of their budget
CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE
8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +537%
WA
WINSLOW ARTS TRUST
3× · 2018–2020 · $105k · revenue +603% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

OR
OREGON RAIL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CUMBRES & TOLTEC
one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +13%
PL
PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY
one grant, 2021 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Pacific Southwest Railway Museum

The Museum's mission is the collection preservation,restoration and operation of vintage railroad equipment at its own facility and on the historic SD&A Railway for education

Arts & Culture

Arizona Railroad Historical Society

Arts & Culture

Arizona Railway Museum

Acquistion, preservation. restoration of railroad artifacts showing the hisotry of arizona

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Friends of No 9 Inc

Friends of Number 9 seeks to acquire, restore, conserve and display the last piece of historic railway stock for the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway.

Arts & Culture

Southeastern Railway Museum Inc

Railway Museum operated to preserve historical artifacts and provide information on the history of railways.

Arts & Culture

Southern California Railway Museum Inc

To perserve and display artifacts and documents of the rail transportation industry in order to educate the public on the technology, history, and impact of the rail transportation industry in the west and more specifically in southern…

Arts & Culture

San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum

The san luis obispo railroad museum is a non-profit educational institution founded to preserve and present the railroad history of california and specifically the central coast. we are open every saturday. our biggest event is the central…

Unclassified

Railroad Museum of New England Inc

The railroad museum of new england, inc. is an educational and historical organization. it is dedicated to educating the public about new england's rich railroad hertiage by preserving and restoring railroad artifacts.

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Railway Museum Limited

Oklahoma Railway Museum allows you to experience history in motion, with an educational experience of railroads and how they shaped Oklahoma and the Nation.

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California State Railroad Museum

Raise & manage funds in support of the museum and calif. state parks in fulfilling their mission.

Arts & Culture

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

To be the recognized flagship institution for information on the Santa Barbara Channel by showcasing our rich maritime history, presenting inspirational programs, and promoting insightful disussions about the future of our coastal…

Arts & Culture

South Dakota State Railroad Museum Ltd

South Dakota State Railroad Museum provides Citizens of all ages hands-on-approach to railroad history. To educate and inform the public of the vital role the railroads in South Dakota played in the history of the state.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec and the most unlike its peers is Oakland Museum of California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

20/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,294,584Arts & Culture$1,775,000Philanthropy$125,000Education$55,500Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$20,000

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.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The Rail Heritage Trust · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 THE CANDELARIA FUND 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

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

05Through 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: SAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~31 months of operating runway; revenue held 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 330213436 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 SAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 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 31 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Candelaria Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Candelaria Fund 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.

THE CANDELARIA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Candelaria Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE CANDELARIA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Candelaria Fund?

More from the funding graph