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4 Legs Foundation at a glance

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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.

$157k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Animals$1.3MHealth$13k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PET HELPERS INC$10,000
HOBO HOTEL INC$10,000
MAGNOLIA FAWN RESCUE INC$5,000
PURRFECT ANGELS CAT RESCUE$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMERALD M THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $13k → 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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    THE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +15%
  • HH
    HOBO HOTEL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +25% · 29% of their budget
  • CA
    CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • KO
    KEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RE AND SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • EM
    Emerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +94%
  • AC
    AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +30%
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
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

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.

Animals
3
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
4
PurrHarmony Inc

Rescue and shelter cats

Animals
5
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
6
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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9
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
10
My Happy Place Animal Sanctuary

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.

Animals
11
Meows and Mutts Rescue

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.

Animals
12
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Helpers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FERAL CAT HELPERS INC: $212,614 · AnimalsFERAL CAT HELPERS INCSAFE FROM SLAUGHTER: $193,069 · AnimalsSAFE FROM SLAUGHTERHOPE ACRES RESCUE: $145,000 · AnimalsHOPE ACRES RESCUETHE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $135,000 · AnimalsTHE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INCHOBO HOTEL INC: $125,000 · AnimalsHOBO HOTEL INCPRECIOUS SOULS CANINE RESCUE: $125,000 · AnimalsPRECIOUS SOULS CANINE RESCUEKEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RE AND SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 · AnimalsKEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RE AND SANCTUARY INCCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $90,000 · AnimalsCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETYPET HELPERS INC: $80,000 · AnimalsPET HELPERS INCDorchester Paws: $45,000 · Animals+5 more: $40,000 · AnimalsEmerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $13,400 · Human Services
Animals$1,290,683Human Services$13,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFERAL CAT HELPERS INC: $212,614 over 4y, 65% of budgetHOPE ACRES RESCUE: $145,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTHE CATTY SHACK RANCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $135,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetHOBO HOTEL INC: $125,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetPRECIOUS SOULS CANINE RESCUE: $125,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPET HELPERS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDorchester Paws: $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEmerald M Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $13,400 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALL 4 PAWS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEUNOIA RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPURRFECT ANGELS CAT RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMAGNOLIA FAWN RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 4 Legs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4 Legs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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