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B & V Emerick Family Foundation at a glance

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B & V Emerick Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$698k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $366k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $332k
$25,300
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIV FOUNDATION$110,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU$106,700
ALZHEIMER FOUNDATION$60,126
K9S4COPS INC$55,000
ELY MEMORIAL CHURCH$37,400
CHRIST CHURCH OF LONGBOAT KEY$36,300
FOREST LAKE FOUNDATION$36,300
PLEASANT HILLS COMM CHURCH$33,000
HCSO CHARITIES$25,300
PASCO SHEIFFS CHARITIES$25,300
MEALS ON WHEELS$22,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$22,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$22,000
WAR DOGS MAKING IT HOME$22,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA$22,000
02The need
02

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 (FY23–23, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $22k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $19k → 10%HCSO CHARITIES: $25k → 13%WAR DOGS MAKING IT HOME: $22k → 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

IL
WI
NY
IN
MD
NM
DC
GA
TX
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 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
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
3
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
4
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
5
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
6
Patriot K9S of Wisconsininc

Provide service dogs for qualified disabled military veterans diagnosed with ptsd, tbi or msi located in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
7
Pawsitivity

Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.

Human Services
8
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
9
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs

Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…

Public Benefit
10
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
11
Fallen Soldiers March

Providing highly trained service dogs for wounded united states military veterans in need of assistance

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12
Legacy K9 Search Team Corporation
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wardogs-Making It Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER FOUNDATION: $60,126 · OtherALZHEIMER FOUNDATIONELY MEMORIAL CHURCH: $37,400 · OtherELY MEMORIAL CHURCHCHRIST CHURCH OF LONGBOAT KEY INC: $36,300 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH OF LONGBOAT KEY INCFOREST LAKE FOUNDATION: $36,300 · OtherFOREST LAKE FOUNDATIONPLEASANT HILLS COMM CHURCH: $33,000 · OtherPLEASANT HILLS COMM CHURCHAMER SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY: $22,000 · OtherAMER SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTYMEALS ON WHEELS: $22,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $22,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYOPERATION PATRIOT INC: $22,000 · OtherOPERATION PATRIOT INCIndiana University Foundation: $110,000 · EducationIndiana University FoundationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $106,700 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU…HCSO Charities Inc: $25,300 · Human ServicesHCSO Charities…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…WARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesWARDOGS-MAKING…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $18,700 · Human ServicesSoutheastern G…K9S4COPS INC: $55,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPasco Sheriff's Charities Inc: $25,300 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $22,000 · Philanthropy
Other$291,126Education$216,700Human Services$88,000Public Safety & Disaster$55,000Health$25,300Philanthropy$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $106,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S4COPS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPasco Sheriff's Charities Inc: $25,300 over 1y, 31% of budgetHCSO Charities Inc: $25,300 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC: $22,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $18,700 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 B & V Emerick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B & V Emerick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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