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A Guardian Angel Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE SPCA | $12,000 |
| ANIMAL BALANCE | $8,000 |
| GOOD NEWS | $5,000 |
| RED ROVER | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE CORPS | $5,000 |
| WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PURR NATION CAT ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| SGI CAT ALLIES | $2,500 |
| OPERATION CATNIP | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 74% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
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
- MSMOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR2× · 2019–2021 · $13k · revenue -9%
- SASAVE A STRAY3× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue -38%
- GNGOOD NEWS2× · 2020–2021 · $6k
Funded once
- MCMOBILE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
- SASARALAND ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +217%
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.
Animal Welfare
Animal Rescue
Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Society for Prevention of Cr and the most unlike its peers is Angies Dog House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BALANCE ↗
- Who funds SAVE A STRAY ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL ↗
- Who funds SGI CAT ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Purr Nation Cat Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Angies Dog House ↗
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: BISSELL Pet Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 A Guardian Angel 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.
- Sgi Cat Allies Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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