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The Capstone Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$676k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$700kReligion$488kPhilanthropy$285kRecreation & Sports$262kInternational$207kPublic Benefit$75kHuman Services$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION RESCUE MISSION$219,769
CAPITOL MINISTRIES$75,000
GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$50,000
WORLD SPORTS INC$50,000
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL$26,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$25,000
USC ASSOCIATES$25,000
XPRIZE FOUNDATION INC$24,000
CALTHORP SCHOOL$20,500
ADVENTURES OF THE HEART$20,000
COMMUNITAS INTERNATIONAL$17,500
WORLD VISION$15,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$15,000
WESTMARK SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTION: $10k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $352k → 14%ACTION: $8k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $225k → 14%ACTION: $5k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $220k → 14%ACTION: $5k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $205k → 14%ACTION: $5k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $200k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $93k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%FREEDOM X: $10k → 14%FREEDOM X: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
NV
CA
CO
VA
AZ
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 25 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
12

Total granted

$3.3M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-5%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +61%
  • GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +71%
  • CM
    CAPITOL MINISTRIES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • FY
    FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • C3
    CORE 300
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +93%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
2
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholar Leaders International; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

29 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. 29 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1,319,819 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION+2 more: $43,500 · Human ServicesUniversity of Miami: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $192,500 · EducationLEARNING WITH A DIFFE…CARLTHORP SCHOOL: $84,000 · EducationCARLTHORP SCHOOLBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $53,800 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SE…Scholar Leaders International: $45,000 · EducationScholar Leaders Inter…UCLA FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Education+2 more: $5,250 · EducationGLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC: $320,000 · ReligionGLOBAL TRAI…Baja Christian Ministries: $47,500 · ReligionBaja Christ…CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC: $127,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN ASSOCI…BEVERLY HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS PR…THE SALVATION ARMY: $37,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION AR…USC ASSOCIATES: $26,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SANTA MONICA: $20,150 · OtherADVENTURES OF THE HEART: $20,000 · OtherFULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $73,500 · OtherX PRIZE FOUNDATI…WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $45,000 · OtherWORLD MONUMENTS …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $32,500 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI MED…+14 more: $57,300 · Other+14 moreCAPITOL MINISTRIES: $285,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITOL M…+1 more: $300 · PhilanthropyWORLD SPORTS INC: $260,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD VISION INC: $80,000 · International
Human Services$1,363,319Education$656,550Religion$367,500Other$504,450Philanthropy$285,300Recreation & Sports$260,000International$80,000

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 budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $1,319,819 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC: $320,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCAPITOL MINISTRIES: $285,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWORLD SPORTS INC: $260,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $192,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $84,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $73,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $53,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaja Christian Ministries: $47,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetScholar Leaders International: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAREA CHRISTIANS TAKING INITIATIVE ON NEEDS: $32,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM X: $11,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEILA KAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING TO KIDS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds Baja Christian Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AREA CHRISTIANS TAKING INITIATIVE ON NEEDS ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM X ↗
  • Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds URBANPROMISE LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHEILA KAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗

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 …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …
California Community FoundationCA15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Capstone Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Capstone 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 42 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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