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Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc at a glance

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Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$149kEducation$21kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR COMPANIONS ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DAKIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 17%THE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 14%KC PET RESCUE INC: $15k → 18%CAT TALES NON-PROFIT RESCUE: $5k → 7%THE LITTLE GUILD OF SAINT FRANCES FOR THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS INC: $8k → 9%FURRY FRIENDS FOSTER AND RESCUE INC: $5k → 9%DAN COSGROVE ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 12%OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $20k → 7%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $21k → 17%LAST POST SANCTUARY: $5k → 9%DAN COSGROVE ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 12%MERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 12%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.
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
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
2
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
3
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
4
Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals
5
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
6
Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue

Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
10
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
11
Furever Friends Rescue

Adoption services for orphaned pets

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12
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meriden Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Western New England University. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $55,000 · AnimalsOUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INCLITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS: $7,500 · AnimalsLITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCISTHE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS INC: $7,500 · AnimalsTHE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS INCCATALES INCORPORATED CAT TALES INCORPORATED: $5,000 · AnimalsDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsARMYS LEGACY ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFURRY FRIENDS FOSTER AND RESCUE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsMERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · AnimalsTOWN OF BRANFORD: $20,000 · OtherTOWN OF BRANFORDKC PET RESCUE: $15,000 · OtherKC PET RESCUEDAKIN HUMAINE SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherDAKIN HUMAINE SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW E…
Animals$114,000Other$45,000Education$21,000

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 budgetOUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATALES INCORPORATED CAT TALES INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMYS LEGACY ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Aetna Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…The John T and Jane a…Chubb Charitable Foun…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The John T and Jane a Wiederhold Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Western New England University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barbara Shampain Foundation Inc 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-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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