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Anderson Valley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$12MPhilanthropy$3.0MHuman Services$1.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$164kPublic Benefit$69kHealth$50kCrime & Legal$41kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $924k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER$600,000
MUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE$425,000
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES$415,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$200,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$150,000
THE ARIZONA PET PROJECT$125,000
LOST OUR HOME PET RESCUE$117,000
AHIMSA HOUSE INC$100,000
TWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND$100,000
THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION$75,000
NATIONAL LINK COALITION$57,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$48,365
PHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC$46,200
ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$43,880
KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC$38,000
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 (FY19–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWSITIVITY: $25k → 14%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $38k → 10%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $44k → 11%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $41k → 11%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $34k → 11%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $31k → 11%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25k → 11%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $24k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
WY
CA
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NE
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 29 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
26

Total granted

$15M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • UA
    UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER
    4× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +128%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +130%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE AND TRAPPING TEAM
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • RB
    ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $143k · revenue +11%
  • HV
    HEIDI'S VILLAGE EIN 88-5189833
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
2
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
3
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
4
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
5
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
6
Valley Humane SocietyInc

Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…

Animals
7
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
8
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
9
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
10
Love Them All

We specialize in saving the most at-risk and critical needs dogs facing unnecessary euthanasia in our local shelters. We provide every resource they need to ultimately become adoptable to their perfect forever home.

Animals
11
Animal Adoption Foundation

Aaf is a no kill shelter for domestic animals that have been abused and abandoned. aaf provides and coordinates adoption, spay/nueter, and educational programs, which aim to reduce and control pet population. aaf maintains temporary…

Animals
12
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Virginia B and David R Jontes 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

42 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. 42 of the 59 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $2,225,791 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVERUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER EIN 68-0124097: $1,540,000 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER EIN 68-0124097GREATER GOOD CHARITIES EIN 20-4846675: $1,391,000 · OtherGREATER GOOD CHARITIES EIN 20-4846675MUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE EIN 26-0416747: $963,116 · OtherMUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE EIN 26-0416747MUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE: $551,000 · OtherMUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUEHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE AND TRAPPING TEAM: $300,000 · Other+14 more: $678,956 · Other+14 moreBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,336,930 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYTHE ARIZONA PET PROJECT: $1,000,000 · AnimalsTHE ARIZONA PET PROJECTArizona Humane Society: $860,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane SocietyLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $702,868 · AnimalsLost Our Home Pet FoundationAHIMSA HOUSE INC: $660,000 · AnimalsAHIMSA HOUSE INCHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $400,000 · AnimalsHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INCTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND: $350,000 · AnimalsTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUNDNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $323,412 · Animals+17 more: $761,361 · Animals+17 moreGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,462,059 · PhilanthropyGREATER GO…Greater Salina Community Foundation: $72,400 · Philanthropy+2 more: $55,435 · PhilanthropyDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $575,120 · Human ServicesArizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc: $198,977 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER CENTER: $38,000 · Human ServicesKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $38,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $164,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $20,000 · HealthCURE CMD: $15,000 · HealthPets for Vets Inc: $25,000 · Public BenefitRuthless Kindness: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$7,649,863Animals$6,394,571Philanthropy$1,589,894Human Services$875,097Public Safety & Disaster$164,000Health$35,000Public Benefit$25,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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 budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $2,225,791 over 4y, 18% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,462,059 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,336,930 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARIZONA PET PROJECT: $1,000,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $860,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $702,868 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetAHIMSA HOUSE INC: $660,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $575,120 over 2y, 17% of budgetHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $400,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND: $350,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $323,412 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetArizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc: $198,977 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $164,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION: $150,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $142,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS: $97,474 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOAH'S ANIMAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVirginia B and David R Jontes Foundation: $77,387 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $72,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL LINK COALITION: $57,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $54,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $38,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $38,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPAWSITIVITY: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY: $22,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCURE CMD: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRuthless Kindness: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHealing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $2,500 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 UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARIZONA PET PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Lost Our Home Pet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AHIMSA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds NOAH'S ANIMAL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LINK COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWSITIVITY ↗

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.

McKesson Foundation IncTX22.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McKesson Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Assurant Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Petco Love · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Anderson Valley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anderson Valley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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 Anderson Valley 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 59 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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