· Private foundation
Cannata Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY PATH HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS INC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL LILAC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLLETON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| SAVE A PET SOCIETY(SEEKONK ANIMAL SHELTER) | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TAUNTON ANIMAL CARE FACILITY | $5,000 |
| OPERATION DELTA DOG | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PAWTUCKET ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| MARTIN RICHARD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEPONSET VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HORSE LOVERS UNITED INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NORTHEAST BARBECUE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +46%
- WFWINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE TAUNTON ANILMAL CARE FACILITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PRPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +27%
- AOARKANPAWS OF NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2024 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NORTH ATTLEBORO ANIMAL SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +75%
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.
The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.
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.
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.
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
The Animal Aid Society is a No-Kill shelter. Our dogs are not euthanized. Dogs are kept at the shelter until placed in a home.However this means that new dogs can only be accepted by the shelter after previous ones have been adopted or…
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.
Rescue animals from shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Potter League for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue League of Fall River. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 86 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TAUNTON ANILMAL CARE FACILITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEPONSET VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREVER HOME RESCUE NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ATTLEBORO ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Shelter Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A DOG INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds RIVMA COMPANION ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMALS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DELTA DOG INC ↗
- Who funds PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Colleton County Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Services for Animals ↗
- Who funds WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
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: Amica Companies Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Verizon Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Massachusetts Animal Coalition Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Cannata Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.