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CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION

CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,550 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($118,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$43M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$471M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation does

Mission

Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation is organized to provide financial support to cal farley's boys ranch through investment and reinvestment of funds, properties and other donations of value received as contributions and support. The foundation is also responsible for some of the expenses related to direct marketing and fundraising efforts for the ranch.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide financial support to cal farley's boys ranch through investment and reinvestment of funds, properties, and other donations of value received as contributions and support. The foundation also supports the ranch by taking on expenses related to direct marketing and fundraising.

    $17,657,459 spentof which $15,826,386 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,657,459.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.2M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($343M)2018 Revenue 154 ($14M) Expenses 90 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($344M)2019 Revenue 211 ($19M) Expenses 95 ($21M) Net assets 99 ($339M)2020 Revenue 240 ($22M) Expenses 86 ($19M) Net assets 101 ($346M)2021 Revenue 235 ($22M) Expenses 83 ($18M) Net assets 119 ($408M)2022 Revenue 428 ($39M) Expenses 86 ($19M) Net assets 98 ($335M)2023 Revenue 296 ($27M) Expenses 86 ($19M) Net assets 108 ($368M)2024 Revenue 293 ($27M) Expenses 89 ($19M) Net assets 126 ($433M)2025 Revenue 468 ($43M) Expenses 133 ($29M) Net assets 137 ($471M)
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Revenue (468)Expenses (133)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $386M to $459M (+19%).

$350M
$352M
$348M
$356M
$419M
$353M
$386M
$459M
$525M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

19% of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13M
’17
−$5.3M
’18
−$1.2M
’19
$3.3M
’20
$3.5M
’21
$21M
’22
$8.5M
’23
$7.6M
’24
$14M
’25
1.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Richard Nedelkoff

CEO/president

Board chair

Michelle Bonner

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed109889119910
Joined·+2+0+1+3+3+0+0+1
No longer listed·31121200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $23k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $33M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cal Farley's Boys Ranch). These are real filings, and they are not money CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 FOUNDATION.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 6%Fundraising 33%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 30 states

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cal Farley's Boys Ranch · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION?
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,550 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($118,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $188,550 in grants to CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION?
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION 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 5 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing