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A Guardian Angel Foundation at a glance

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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.

$46k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Animals$108kPublic Safety & Disaster$500
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOBILE SPCA$12,000
ANIMAL BALANCE$8,000
GOOD NEWS$5,000
RED ROVER$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE CORPS$5,000
PURR NATION CAT ALLIANCE$3,000
WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
OPERATION CATNIP$2,500
SGI CAT ALLIES$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 12%RED ROVER: $5k → 12%CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2k → 16%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHAB: $500 → 7%WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS: $500 → 16%TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE: $2k → 16%ANIMAL RESCUE CORPS: $5k → 14%ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE: $1k → 11%FSARC: $1k → 13%OPERATION CATNIP: $3k → 19%FRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL: $5k → 21%ANGIES DOG HOUSE: $500 → 12%HOPE 4 HEARTS: $1k → 19%BARK NATION: $500 → 9%PURR NATION CAT ALLIANCE: $3k → 8%CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1k → 16%OPERATION CAT NIP: $1k → 19%BALDWIN CO ANIMAL SHELTER: $1k → 12%DAUPHIN ISLANDCAT ASSOCIATION: $3k → 19%GOOD NEWS: $5k → 8%ALACHUA CO ANIMAL SERVICE: $1k → 19%MOBILE CAT SOCIETY: $3k → 19%GOOD NEWS: $500 → 8%MOBILE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 19%SARALAND ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 19%PROJECT PURR: $4k → 19%MOBILE SPCA: $12k → 19%SAVE A STRAY: $3k → 19%SAVE A STRAY: $3k → 19%SAVE A STRAY: $2k → 19%MOBILE SPCA: $500 → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
CA
UT
AR
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 7 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
23

Total granted

$39k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+109%

Still filing today

57%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • MS
    MOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR
    2× · 2019–2021 · $13k · revenue -9%
  • SA
    SAVE A STRAY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue -38%
  • GN
    GOOD NEWS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k

Funded once

  • MC
    MOBILE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SA
    SARALAND ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +217%
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
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
2
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
3
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
4
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
5
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
6
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
7
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
8
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

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.

Animals
9
All About Animals Rescue Inc

Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs

Animals
10
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

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.

Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Society for Prevention of Cr; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANIMAL BALANCE: $8,000 · OtherANIMAL BALANCEGOOD NEWS: $5,500 · OtherGOOD NEWSMOBILE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $5,000 · OtherMOBILE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERSARALAND ANIMAL SHELTER: $5,000 · OtherSARALAND ANIMAL SHELTERUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVERAAWC: $4,210 · OtherAAWCPROJECT PURR: $3,554 · OtherPROJECT PURROPERATION CATNIP: $3,500 · OtherOPERATION CATNIPAZALEA CAT COALITION: $3,500 · OtherAZALEA CAT COALITIONDAUPHIN ISLAND CAT ASSOCIATION: $3,175 · OtherCOCO'S LIGHTHOUSE: $3,000 · OtherMOBILE CAT SOCIETY: $2,892 · Other+13 more: $12,300 · Other+13 moreMOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR: $12,500 · AnimalsMOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRSAVE A STRAY: $7,500 · AnimalsSAVE A STRAYAnimal Rescue Corps Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsAnimal Rescue Corps IncFRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL: $5,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROLSGI CAT ALLIES INC: $3,500 · AnimalsSGI CAT ALLIES INCPurr Nation Cat Alliance Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsPurr Nation Cat Alliance IncCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $3,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · AnimalsWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC+2 more: $1,500 · Animals
Other$64,631Animals$44,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAVE A STRAY: $7,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAnimal Rescue Corps Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSGI CAT ALLIES INC: $3,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPurr Nation Cat Alliance Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

BISSELL Pet FoundationPetsmart Charities IncPaypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
BISSELL Pet FoundationMI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Sgi Cat Allies Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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, FY20–24
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.
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How do I get to A Guardian Angel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to A Guardian Angel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 35 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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