Michigan · Nonprofit
CALFTECH
CALFTECH (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $540,800 to it, the largest being LAY JOACHIM E CHARITABLE PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($540,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CALFTECH has grown faster than half of the 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memoriallocal
- Stacy and Witbeck Foundationportfolio match
- California Cotton Allianceportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $99k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of CALFTECH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CALFTECH's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer MemoriallocalMI · funds 69 organizations near you
- Stacy and Witbeck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Cotton Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Scott and Tara Roseman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kelley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harvey L & Maud C Sorensen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oak Tree Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jnr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bolton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zero Foodprintportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solano Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 CALFTECH
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALFTECH: 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 CALFTECH?
- CALFTECH (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $540,800 to it, the largest being LAY JOACHIM E CHARITABLE PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($540,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALFTECH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $540,800 in grants to CALFTECH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALFTECH?
- LAY JOACHIM E CHARITABLE PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALFTECH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1funders 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