· Public charity
American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation
American kennel club companion animal recovery (akc car)'s mission is to promote identification of pets and reunite lost pets with their owners.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 200 grants below total $1,591,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,929,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $337,977 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k198 grants · $1.5M
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog | $100,000 |
| Savannah Police Department | $10,000 |
| Lumberton Police Department | $7,500 |
| Knox County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Freeborn County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| West Salem Police Department | $7,500 |
| Camden County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Morehead City Police Department | $7,500 |
| Kaufman County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Atlantic County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Kearney Police Department | $7,500 |
| Ottawa County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
| Abilene Police Department | $7,500 |
| Hancock County Sheriff's Office | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +229% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 154 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TAThe American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog7× · 2018–2024 · $710k · revenue +229%
- SPST PAUL POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +6%
- ASANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- AKAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -54%
- FOFRIENDS OF COUNTYPETSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
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.
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide funding for the purchase, training, equipment, and veterinary care for los angeles police department metropolitan k9 unit.
To provide dogs to the police k9 unit
Our mission is to partner with the novato police department for the acquisition of canines, to assist in their healthcare needs, to provide support for their training and to foster good relations between the police department and the…
To provide the safety and medical needs of Law Enforcement K-9's. This includes protective vests, needed equipment, surgeries, etc. Requests for needed equipment are made by the K-9 handlers.
Care for retired police canine dogs.
To provide support for the canine units of local police departments.
Support valparaiso indiana police k9
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Sonoma County and the most unlike its peers is Sapulpa Area Chamber Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 638 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterinarians for Puerto Rico Corp ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
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: Center for Technology and Civic Life · Our Rescue · Best Friends Animal Society · The Golden Leaf Inc · Ucare Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · K9s4cops Inc · Ucare Minnesota · Minnesota Historical Society · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · National Recreation and Park Association
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 American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% 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.