Texas · Nonprofit
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH (Texas) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,990,593 to it, the largest being Boys Ranch Trust ($5,262,207). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Wolf Mountain Foundationportfolio match
- Our Little Light Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 107 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $8.2M.
29 of 216 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $133M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH raised.
From the IRS filings of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 216 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 39% · 2019 32% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 216 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 204 organizations that share your funders
- Wolf Mountain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Little Light Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helm Willis C Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mattick Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ticket to Dream Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benjamin F Brady Charitable Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- In-N-Out Burgers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tappan Clancy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Children's Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ken W Davis Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Tascosa Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation · exempt
- Trust Under Will of Faye McIntire · corp_trust
- Peeler Charitable Trust · corp_trust
- Marion F Van Streain Perpertual Charitable Trust FBO Cal Farley's Boys Ra · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH?
- CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH (Texas) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,990,593 to it, the largest being Boys Ranch Trust ($5,262,207). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 216 organizations giving $25,990,593 in grants to CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH, 144 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH?
- Boys Ranch Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,262,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 216funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing