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Deerhaven Foundation Inc at a glance

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Deerhaven 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$59kArts & Culture$12kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$8kReligion$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FURKIDS INC$15,000
SOUTHERN HOPE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
ANGEL PAWS INC$2,000
CANINE ASSISTANTS$500
Friends to the Forlorn Pitbull Rescue Inc$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Shelter for Abused Women & Children: $2k → 10%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $1k → 13%MISSION CHANGE: $10k → 28%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $1k → 13%Mission Change: $1k → 28%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $1k → 13%Mission Change: $500 → 28%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$73k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+43%

Still filing today

75%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +64%
  • SP
    STREET PAWS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
  • CA
    CANINE ASSISTANTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AS
    ATLANTA STEP UP SOCIETY THRIFT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • ZA
    ZOO ATLANTA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • SL
    St Lukes Episopal Church
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
3
Fostering Foster Animal Rescue

Fostering foster animal rescue is a volunteer based nonprofit. we are dedicated to rescuing animals, primarily dogs, that are in southern kill shelters and that are in desperate need of help. we know that spay and neuter is one way to…

Animals
4
Furever Friends Rescue

Adoption services for orphaned pets

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5
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
6
Adoptable Paws Rescue Inc

House unwanted abandoned domestic animal

—
7
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…

Animals
8
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
9
Powerful Paws Animal Rescue Inc

To help abandoned, surrendered, neglected and abused animals to find homes.

Animals
10
Furever Home Inc

Furever home, inc.s main mission is to save as many at-risk dogs as possible. whether that risk be euthanasia, neglect, abuse or homelessness. along with our mission to keeping dogs safe, we work to educate as many people as possible about…

Animals
11
Four Paws Animal Foundation

Feline rescue and adoption plus trap-neuter-return program (tnr).

Animals
12
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clearwater Academy Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN HOPE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherSOUTHERN HOPE HUMANE SOCIETY INCGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · OtherGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INCST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHATLANTA STEP UP SOCIETY THRIFT: $2,500 · OtherATLANTA STEP UP SOCIETY THRIFTZOO ATLANTA: $2,500 · OtherZOO ATLANTASt Lukes Episopal Church: $2,000 · OtherANGEL PAWS INC: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherFURKIDS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsFURKIDS INCFRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL RESCUE INC: $10,250 · AnimalsFRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL R…STREET PAWS INC: $4,500 · AnimalsSTREET PAWS INCMISSION CHANGE INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesMISSION CHANGE INCCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesCANINE ASSISTANTS …THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FOR AB…FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,250 · Arts & CultureFORWARD ARTS …CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC: $1,500 · Education
Other$43,000Animals$29,750Human Services$16,500Arts & Culture$12,250Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION CHANGE INC: $11,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL RESCUE INC: $10,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTREET PAWS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLEARWATER ACADEMY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FURKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds STREET PAWS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deerhaven Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deerhaven Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 3% 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 · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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