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American Shetland Sheepdog Association Foundation

Promote the american shetland sheepdog breed

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$130kFood & Nutrition$41kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $45,204, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,357 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,153 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$9,204
Median grant
3
States reached
$683k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
MINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUE$9,204
TAKE THE LEAD$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUE: $9k → 7%LONG ISLAND SHELTIE RESCUE: $3k → 6%TAKE THE LEAD: $10k → 14%SHELTIE SHACK RESCUE: $1k → 13%AKC REUNITE: $2k → 8%WESTERN NC SHELTIE RESCUE: $1k → 9%CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHELTIE RESCUE: $2k → 11%SSPSNJ: $3k → 7%NATIONAL SHELTIE RESCUE ASSN: $500 → 7%SHELTIE RESCUF MAINE: $2k → 7%LONG ISLAND SHELTIE RESCUE: $2k → 6%TAKE THE LEAD: $8k → 14%AKC REUNITE: $1k → 8%WESTERN NC SHELTIE RESCUE: $451 → 9%NATIONAL SHELTIE RESCUE ASSN: $500 → 7%TAKE THE LEAD: $8k → 14%AKC REUNITE: $500 → 8%NATIONAL SHELTIE RESCUE ASSN: $500 → 7%TAKE THE LEAD: $6k → 14%AKC REUNITE: $500 → 8%TAKE THE LEAD: $6k → 14%TAKE THE LEAD: $5k → 14%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

ME
MN
IL
NY
OR
NJ
MO
MD
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 8 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -36% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$155k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-36%

Still filing today

63%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AK
    AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +14%
  • TT
    TAKE THE LEAD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +58%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA SHELIE RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • S
    SSPSNJ
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CI
    CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHELTIE RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -36%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $66,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATIONMINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUE: $9,204 · AnimalsMINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUEAmerican Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation: $4,000 · Animals+2 more: $4,257 · AnimalsTAKE THE LEAD INC: $41,000 · Food & NutritionTAKE THE LEAD INCNATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE: $33,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ANIMAL INTER…LONG ISLAND SHELTIE RESCUE: $5,353 · OtherLONG ISLAND…SOUTH CAROLINA SHELIE RESCUE: $4,128 · OtherSOUTH CAROL…SSPSNJ: $2,550 · OtherSSPSNJIndividual grant recipient: $2,203 · OtherIndividual …WESTERN NC SHELTIE RESCUE: $1,615 · OtherWESTERN NC …NATIONAL SHELTIE RESCUE ASSN: $1,500 · OtherNATIONAL SH…Individual grant recipient: $1,083 · OtherIndividual …
Animals$83,961Food & Nutrition$41,000Philanthropy$33,500Other$18,432

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $66,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE: $33,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS SHELTIE RESCUE: $2,257 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe AKC Humane Fund Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TAKE THE LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHELTIE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds The AKC Humane Fund Inc ↗

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 Shetland Sheepdog Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Shetland Sheepdog Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to American Shetland Sheepdog Association Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to American Shetland Sheepdog Association 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 14 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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