· Private foundation
Black Dog Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Vermont Land Trust | $10,000 |
| Northeast Wilderness Trust | $9,798 |
| Nambian Rural Education Fund | $6,000 |
| Boulder Alano Club | $5,000 |
| The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust | $5,000 |
| Tisch MS Research Center | $4,000 |
| Front Range Hippotherapy | $3,000 |
| Black Hat Humane Society | $3,000 |
| Queer Asterisk | $3,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy of VT | $3,000 |
| American Bird Conservancy | $3,000 |
| HEAL Raising Our World Foundation I | $3,000 |
| Dumb Friends League | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +67%
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +448%- HMHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- HRHEAL Raising Our World Foundation Ione grant, 2017 · $10k
- PWPLANET WOMENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +459%
- TBTHE BOMA PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +374%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equine Advocates Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Namibian Rural Education Fund Inc. 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 25 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.
34 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. 34 of the 47 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 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEAL Raising Our World Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Boulder Alano Club ↗
- Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NAMIBIAN RURAL EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANET WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE BOMA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE HIPPOTHERAPY ↗
- Who funds Ready For Reading Inc ↗
- Who funds Russian Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds The Z Space Studio ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WINDHORSE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds ONE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds QUEER ASTERISK ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Black Dog 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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