· Private foundation
The James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL POLY FOUNDATION | $198,802 |
| OPERATION SURF | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL BRUSSELS GRIFFON RESCUE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PEOPLES SELF-HELP HOUSING CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| 5 CITIES HOMELESS COALITION | $1,000 |
| K9'S FOR WARRIORS | $1,000 |
| SLO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL BALANCE | $500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SLO COUNTY | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- FCFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
- OSOPERATION SURF4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +43%
- WHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- YFYOSEMITE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%
- AKAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +12%
- MCMEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +11%
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.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 5CITIES Homeless Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meade Canine Rescue Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF 40PRADO ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Feline Network of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds OSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER & SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BALANCE ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Niner Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 James and Felicia Cashin 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.
- 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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