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The James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$199k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$564kHealth$104kAnimals$84kHuman Services$52kHousing & Shelter$32kArts & Culture$18kEnvironment$12kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAL POLY FOUNDATION$198,802
NATIONAL BRUSSELS GRIFFON RESCUE$15,000
OPERATION SURF$15,000
FAMILY CARE NETWORK$10,000
WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION$7,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$5,000
GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY$5,000
ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
PEOPLES SELF-HELP HOUSING CORPORATION$3,000
5 CITIES HOMELESS COALITION$1,000
SLO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$1,000
K9'S FOR WARRIORS$1,000
ANIMAL BALANCE$500
OSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER AND SANCTUARY$500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%5 CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 12%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

OR
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$649k · 20 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$649k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • FC
    FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • OS
    OPERATION SURF
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +27%
  • WH
    WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AK
    AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • MC
    MEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +2%
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
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

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…

Animals
2
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
4
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

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…

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
7
The California Channel

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…

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8
The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health
9
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
10
Parks California

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.

Environment
11
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

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.

Animals
12
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 5CITIES Homeless Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAL POLY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $364,236 · OtherCAL POLY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTSFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC: $50,000 · OtherFAMILY CARE NETWORK INCNATIONAL BRUSSELS GRIFFON RESCUE: $26,000 · Other+15 more: $74,800 · Other+15 moreCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $198,802 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC ST…OPERATION SURF: $35,000 · HealthOPERATION …RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $21,000 · HealthRESTLESS L…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $9,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHI…THE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $24,000 · AnimalsFeline Network of the Central Coast: $7,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsMEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF 40PRADO: $13,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15,310 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$515,036Education$198,802Health$83,000Animals$43,000Housing & Shelter$24,000Arts & Culture$15,310Recreation & Sports$10,000

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 budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $198,802 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15,310 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF 40PRADO: $13,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFeline Network of the Central Coast: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER & SANCTUARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Niner Foundation …ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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