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Culley Carlson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Animals$74kFood & Nutrition$33kScience & Tech$17kEducation$10kHealth$6k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
$5,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$517k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARM SANCTUARY INC$20,000
NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE$20,000
HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION$15,000
NEW HARVEST INC$11,500
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$10,000
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDAT$8,500
PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC$5,500
CITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC$4,000
COOPERS CO-OP INC$3,000
WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC$3,000
TAIL WAGGERS INN$2,000
LOS ANGELES S P C A$1,600
JELLYS PLACE$1,000
NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDAT: $9k → 11%JELLYS PLACE: $1k → 9%ANIMAL PLACE: $5k → 11%NEW HARVEST INC: $12k → 12%LOS ANGELES S P C A: $2k → 14%KAUAI SPCA: $5k → 9%FARM SANCTUARY INC: $20k → 12%WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $3k → 16%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC: $6k → 14%TAIL WAGGERS INN: $2k → 18%ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDAT: $9k → 11%ANIMAL PLACE: $3k → 11%LOS ANGELES S P C A: $1k → 14%TAIL WAGGERS INN: $1k → 18%COOPERS CO-OP INC: $3k → 11%CITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC: $4k → 14%CITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC: $1k → 14%HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$48k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+0%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsFood & NutritionEducationHealthOther

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

  • HA
    HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • AR
    ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDAT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +473%

Funded once

  • AP
    Animal Place
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -23%
  • KS
    Kauai SPCA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +0%
  • CG
    CROSSING GUARDIANSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc

Catskill animal sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living.

Animals
4
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

5
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
6
Karma Farm Sanctuary Inc
Animals
7
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
8
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
9
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
10
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
12
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kauai Spca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · AnimalsHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATIONFARM SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCAnimal Place — $8,000 · AnimalsAnimal PlaceCITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsCITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INCKauai SPCA — $5,000 · AnimalsKauai SPCAWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $3,000 · AnimalsCOOPERS CO OP INC — $3,000 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,800 · Animals+3 more — $4,500 · Animals+3 moreACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDAT — $17,000 · OtherACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR C…NEW HARVEST INC — $11,500 · OtherNEW HARVEST INCTAIL WAGGERS INN — $3,000 · OtherTAIL WAGGERS INNNew Roots Institute — $21,000 · Food & NutritionNew Roots Institu…Trustees of Tufts College — $10,000 · EducationPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $5,500 · Health
Animals$71,300Other$31,500Food & Nutrition$21,000Education$10,000Health$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew Roots Institute — $21,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HARVEST INC — $11,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Place — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKauai SPCA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERS CO OP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSING GUARDIANS — $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPacific Wildlife Care — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJELLYS PLACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Animal Charity EvaluatorsCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Animal Charity Evaluators · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Culley Carlson 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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