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Dover's Chair 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.

$86k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$943k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wings Programs Inc$31,85026%
Heidi's Kitten Rescue$15,005216%
Equine Outreach Inc$12,50026%
Camp Tails$10,00013%
Strong Paws Rescue Inc$7,0001n/a
My New Cat$5,0001n/a
C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC$5,00012%
Greenpoint Cats Inc$5,00012%
Old Dogs New Digs$5,00013%
The Street Dog Coalition$5,00010%
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All grantees of Dover's Chair Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wings Programs Inc$31,85026%
Heidi's Kitten Rescue$15,005216%
Equine Outreach Inc$12,50026%
Camp Tails$10,00013%
Strong Paws Rescue Inc$7,0001n/a
My New Cat$5,0001n/a
C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC$5,00012%
Greenpoint Cats Inc$5,00012%
Old Dogs New Digs$5,00013%
The Street Dog Coalition$5,00010%
Whiskers-Agogo Inc$5,00014%
Feral Change Dba Full Circle Cats$5,0001n/a
Bitter Root Humane Association$4,84610%
Loving Paws Inc$4,6001n/a
Olyver & Co$4,0001n/a
Meow and Forever Cat Rescue$5401n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dover's Chair Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWings Programs Inc: $31,850 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHeidi's Kitten Rescue: $15,005 over 2y, 16% of budgetEquine Outreach Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCamp Tails: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetC & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreenpoint Cats Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOld Dogs New Digs: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Street Dog Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWhiskers-Agogo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBitter Root Humane Association: $4,846 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

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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.

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About Dover's Chair Inc

How much does Dover's Chair Inc give?
Dover's Chair Inc reported 12 grants totaling $86,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Dover's Chair Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (91%).
Who are Dover's Chair Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Wings Programs Inc ($32k), Heidi's Kitten Rescue ($15k), Equine Outreach Inc ($13k).
Does Dover's Chair Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dover's Chair Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Dover's Chair Inc based?
Dover's Chair Inc is based in NY.

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 19 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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