· Public charity
Cause4paws Pet Food Bank
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $396,733.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help rescue unwanted pets
To provide care for orphaned pets
Rescue animals
Animal rescue
Saving dogs
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Tails Dachshund Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Valley Adult Resources Foundation Inc. 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 11 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 11% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911 · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · American Express Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Gannett Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable 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.