· Private foundation
Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| DOGS INC | $20,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL | $10,000 |
| LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER | $10,000 |
| BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $10,000 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSN | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $10,000 |
| LUKES WINGS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- FWFLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +29%
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +126%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +38%
- ABALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +76%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To protect national forests and to reform the u.s. forest service by advocating for environmental ethics, educating citizens, and defending whistleblowers.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 49 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
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 FLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ST MARKS WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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: Wise Foundation · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Frank Mangano Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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.
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