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American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$367k
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 2025.

Science & Tech$15MEducation$4.9MAnimals$1.8MHealth$1.0MFood & Nutrition$749kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $2,682,848, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,222,205 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $539,357 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $617k
$170,654
Median grant
17
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$366,533
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$239,030
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$233,211
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$221,199
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH$209,500
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$182,821
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$177,109
VIRGINIA-MARYLAND COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$170,654
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$163,570
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$157,884
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$86,250
THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$75,196
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON$59,760
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$48,240
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $169k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $341k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $367k → 22%ETHOS DISCOVERY: $349k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $262k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $208k → 15%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $221k → 15%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $167k → 20%BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $325k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $425k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $177k → 27%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $287k → 15%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $328k → 19%VIRGINIA- MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $207k → 21%THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULEANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDTULANE UNIVERSITY: $199k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $309k → 9%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $315k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $299k → 14%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $288k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $175k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $161k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $369k → 8%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $417k → 19%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $238k → 15%VIRGINIA-MARYLAND COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $171k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $672k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $270k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $243k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $199k → 15%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $305k → 19%VIRGINIA- MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $159k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $518k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $197k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS: $302k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $329k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $287k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $230k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $158k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $235k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $233k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $231k → 16%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $210k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $189k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $207k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $182k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $183k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $164k → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $258k → 8%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

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Grants abroad, by region: $534k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$489k · 92% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 1) DECIPHERING THE STS-LANDSCAPE COMBINING SPATIALLY DEFINED TRANSCRIPTOMICS WITH CLINICAL OUTCOME DATA TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF CANINE SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMA AND 2) ASSESSING THE RADIOSENSITIVITY OF MOLECULAR SUBTYPES IN CANINE MENINGIOMAS - A PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL RADIOTHERAPY TRIAL.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$45k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 1) ENGINEERING CYTOKINE-RECEPTOR ENHANCED CAR T CELLS TO ACHIEVE LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE AND DURABLE REMISSION IN CANINE B-CELL LYMPHOMA AND 2) OPTIMIZING PAIN CONTROL WITH EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA IN CANINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISEASE SURGERY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 27 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
22

Total granted

$20M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+34%

Still filing today

11%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsOther
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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    6× · 2018–2025 · $658k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $471k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • ED
    ETHOS DISCOVERY
    one grant, 2021 · $349k · revenue +13% · 38% of their budget
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $309k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $199k · revenue +44%
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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is The Animal Medical Center. 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

17 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. 17 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,264,871 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $2,091,901 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTACOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,718,311 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $1,294,829 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $1,284,387 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDATHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,091,122 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $992,722 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $854,419 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $852,416 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $686,600 · Other+26 more: $5,128,293 · Other+26 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,440,779 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…Cornell University: $1,143,614 · EducationCornell UniversityTrustees of Tufts College: $657,836 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Col…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $471,237 · EducationUniversity of Georgia…UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $308,718 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAM…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $199,025 · Education+4 more: $141,381 · EducationETHOS DISCOVERY: $348,559 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $90,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $67,731 · HealthTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $14,450 · Animals
Other$18,259,871Education$4,362,590Health$506,290Animals$14,450

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,440,779 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,143,614 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $657,836 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $471,237 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetETHOS DISCOVERY: $348,559 over 1y, 38% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $308,718 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $199,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $152,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $123,945 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $107,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $67,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $19,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $14,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $8,541 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ETHOS DISCOVERY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗

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.

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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 American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 American Kennel Club Canine Health 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 50 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 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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