· Private foundation
4 Legs Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE FROM SLAUGHTER | $58,500 |
| FERAL CAT HELPERS INC | $28,376 |
| PRECIOUS SOULS CANINE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC | $20,000 |
| CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC | $10,000 |
| HOBO HOTEL INC | $10,000 |
| PET HELPERS INC | $10,000 |
| MAGNOLIA FAWN RESCUE INC | $5,000 |
| PURRFECT ANGELS CAT RESCUE | $5,000 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TCTHE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +15%
- HHHOBO HOTEL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +25% · 29% of their budget
- CACHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- KOKEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RE AND SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -17%
- EMEmerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +94%
- EREUNOIA RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -81%
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.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Rescue and shelter cats
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Animal rescue and housing
To help rescue unwanted pets
Animal Welfare
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
My Happy Place Animal Sanctuary is a registered 501(c)3 non profit organization dedicated to providing rescue, rehabilitation and refuge to at-risk animals.
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Helpers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 FERAL CAT HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FROM SLAUGHTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACRES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HOBO HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS SOULS CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds KEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RE AND SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PET HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Dorchester Paws ↗
- Who funds Emerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EUNOIA RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 PAWS ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT ANGELS CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA FAWN RESCUE INC ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 4 Legs Foundation 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.
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.