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Barnsley Emma Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$167k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$548kEducation$225kEnvironment$73kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$30,000
WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC$8,000
BIDEAWEE INC$8,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$8,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$8,000
PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST$7,500
SPCA OF TEXAS$7,500
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$7,500
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION$7,500
BULVERDE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NYC INC$5,000
TEN LIVES CLUB INC$5,000
FARM SANCTUARY$5,000
HEARD SCIENCE MUSEUM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL TRACKS: $8k → 14%ATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD: $7k → 7%LUCKY ORPHANS HORSE RESCUE: $10k → 9%BIDEAWEE INC: $8k → 17%INTERNATIONAL EXOTIC FELINE SANCTUARY IN: $10k → 8%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%PETER EMILY INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY DEN: $7k → 10%TAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORT: $9k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 11%PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST: $10k → 12%TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $10k → 17%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE RESCUE: $7k → 8%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $10k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 11%PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST: $8k → 12%SPCA OF TEXAS: $10k → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $30k → 22%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $8k → 17%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $8k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 11%PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST: $8k → 12%SPCA OF TEXAS: $8k → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $8k → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $8k → 17%WEST TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $8k → 10%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $8k → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $8k → 17%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $8k → 10%DALLAS PETS ALIVE: $10k → 14%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $8k → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $8k → 17%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $8k → 14%ZSL AMERICA INC: $20k → 17%ZSL AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $8k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $8k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $8k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $8k → 17%ZSL AMERICA INC: $20k → 17%ZSL AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
RI
CA
UT
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$684k · 28 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$684k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+49%

Still filing today

93%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +37%
  • AP
    AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • WT
    WEST TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • LO
    Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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3
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
4
One Tail At a Time West Texas

One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…

Animals
5
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
8
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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9
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
10
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
11
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets

Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets is a placement and transport rescue that works with small town panhandle shelters to help animals who are at risk of euthanasia get to rescues where they are adopted and loved.Our volunteers work…

Animals
12
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Pines and Prairies Land Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr13%38%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,756

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ZSL AMERICA INC — $60,000 · AnimalsZSL AMERICA INCTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $45,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $32,500 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INCHumane Society of North Texas — $32,500 · AnimalsHumane Society of North TexasDefenders of Wildlife — $30,500 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $28,000 · AnimalsBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INCBIDEAWEE INC — $23,000 · AnimalsSPCA of Texas — $22,500 · AnimalsTexas Conservation Alliance — $20,000 · AnimalsSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc — $17,500 · Animals+27 more — $204,950 · Animals+27 moreTexas A&M Foundation — $70,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION…WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV F…WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS A&M U…DUCKS UNLIMITED INC — $31,100 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED …WEST TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS A M U…MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $7,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS …ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NYC INC — $5,000 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION — $5,000 · OtherHEARD SCIENCE MUSEUM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — $5,000 · OtherBulverde Area Humane Society — $5,000 · OtherPINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST — $25,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $15,500 · EnvironmentATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD — $12,000 · EnvironmentTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Animals$516,450Education$160,000Other$123,600Environment$52,500Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZSL AMERICA INC — $60,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $28,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Conservation Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS PETS ALIVE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $13,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL TRACKS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD — $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORT — $8,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOR ANIMALS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPETER EMILY INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY DENTAL FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAggieland Humane Society — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPAWS of Grays Harbor — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION — $5,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSHADOW CATS RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURTLE RESCUE OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVintage Pet Rescue — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Duffield Family F…The Summerlee Foundat…Best Friends Animal S…Petco LoveJames a Buddy Davidso…Petsmart Charities IncThe American Society …Greater Good CharitiesAetna Foundation IncAmy Shelton McNutt Ch…Shell USA Company Fou…BISSELL Pet Foundation
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Summerlee Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities · Aetna Foundation Inc · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation

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 Barnsley Emma Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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