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Black Dog Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$35k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Black Dog Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$1k67%
FY20231$50100%
FY20222$2k100%
FY20211$2500%
FY20206$1k50%
FY201914$9k86%
FY20182$755100%
FY20175$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$2kAnimals$2kCivil Rights$1kHousing & Shelter$1kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Black Dog Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $1,715 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Lower Blue River: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBicycle Colorado: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maxfund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity First Solutions: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetContinental Divide Land Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Humane Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeath Ride Tour Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kelly S Brush Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Black Dog Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Black Dog 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.

About Black Dog Foundation Inc

How much does Black Dog Foundation Inc give?
Black Dog Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $1,075 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Black Dog Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Health (15%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
Who are Black Dog Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($2k), Friends of the Earth ($2k), National Brain Tumor Society Inc ($2k).
Does Black Dog Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Black Dog Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Black Dog Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Black Dog Foundation Inc based?
Black Dog Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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