· Private foundation
Ch & Gf Pajeau 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATION | $8,860 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $5,759 |
| FOR OUR FRIENDS | $5,316 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC | $4,430 |
| NATIONAL AVIARY PITTSBURGH INC | $3,544 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM | $3,544 |
| SPAY AND STAY | $3,544 |
| OPERATION TOPCAT | $3,544 |
| PEEWEES PET ADOPTION WORLD | $2,215 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,772 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,772 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of your 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 +9% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +741%- NANATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +9%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $4k
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Animal Welfare
Animal shelter and rescue
Wildlife rehabitation
Operation of a wildlife rescue that is usda licensed and insured, providing forever homes, care and rehabilitation for exotic animals that are released into our care from government agencies(i.e. animal control, fish & wildlife), and from…
Friends of Feral Felines provided Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR) subsidies for 1,919 unowned community cats
Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Humanely decrease the abandoned and feral cat population through the trap, neuter, return management program
Feral animal care
A not for profit organization dedicated to improving the welfare of domestic animals and wildlife
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Topcat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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 NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION TOPCAT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds SPAY AND STAY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds WHARTON COUNTY STRAY PET OUTREACH TEAM ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ch & Gf Pajeau 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.
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% 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.