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Albert C Bostwick Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$533kEducation$353kHealth$263kInternational$40kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAKER INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY$117,500
RICHMOND SPCA$35,000
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER$35,000
RED LEASH RESCUE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OLD FORGE FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
THE HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SERVICE DOGS FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%SERVICE DOGS FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%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

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
SC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -49% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-49%

Still filing today

56%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Cornell University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $353k · revenue +50%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +43%
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TK
    The Kohn Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -89%
  • TG
    THE GREAT ESCAPE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -49%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
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
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
2
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
3
Heaven On Earth Animal Retirement Sanctuary

Heaven on earth animal retirement sanctuary's commitment is to help reduce animal suffering by facilitating greater empathy, understanding and connection with farmed animals.

Animals
4
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
5
Rescue Life Inc

The mission of rescue life is to save the lives of wild, farm, and domestic animals which include horses, pigs, donkeys, llamas, zebras, alpacas,and dogs. the mission includes providing care, shelter, and adoption services. rescue life…

Animals
6
Florence Area Humane Society

To provide veterinary care, vaccines, medicine, food and a nurturing environment to restore animals from abused and neglected situations to a healthy life.

Animals
7
Hawaii Pet Network Inc

The organization rescues unwanted, injured, and neglected animals and rehomes them into forever homes. the organization promotes the benefits or spaying & neutering pets, educates the community about the humane treatment of animals, and is…

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8
Live Free Animal Rescue

To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.

Animals
9
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
10
Harmony Animal Rescue Clinic

Helping animal rescue organizations save more lives by providing timely, low-cost veterinary care is the mission of harmony animal rescue clinic.

Animals
11
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
12
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is The Kohn Foundation. 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 22 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAKER INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $259,000 · OtherBAKER INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AT CORNELL …COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $105,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLO…LAUREL HOUSE INC: $50,532 · OtherLAUREL HOUSE INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLIDAY HOPE CITY OF AIKEN: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $22,500 · OtherCornell University: $352,500 · EducationCornell UniversityFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $112,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALSRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $105,000 · AnimalsRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR TH…RED LEASH RESCUE INC: $37,500 · AnimalsRED LEASH RESCUE INC+2 more: $16,300 · Animals+2 moreHELPHOPELIVE INC: $104,000 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · InternationalThe Kohn Foundation: $12,500 · InternationalSIERRA DELTA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY: $5,000 · Crime & LegalHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $4,000 · Environment
Other$532,032Education$352,500Animals$271,300Health$104,000International$40,000Human Services$15,000Crime & Legal$5,000Environment$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $352,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $112,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $104,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $50,532 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRED LEASH RESCUE INC: $37,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Kohn Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY: $8,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREAT ESCAPE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $4,000 over 4y, 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds RED LEASH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA DELTA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Kohn Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT ESCAPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE ↗

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.

Network for GoodDC8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Albert C Bostwick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert C Bostwick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • Laurel House Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Albert C Bostwick 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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