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Dover's Chair Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$943k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wings Programs Inc$25,000
Heidi's Kitten Rescue$10,005
Pepper's Pals Cat Resuce (Spay-Neuter Services of IN)$7,500
Equine Outreach$7,500
Strong Paws Rescue Inc$7,000
Full Circle Cats$5,000
Thrifted Kittens Animal Rescue (Emilie's Foster Crew Inc)$5,000
My New Cat$5,000
C&Ws Rustic Hollow Shelter$5,000
Lovings Paws Inc$4,600
Olyver & Co$4,000
Meow and Forever Cat Rescue$540
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Heidi's Kitten Rescue: $10k → 11%Full Circle Cats: $5k → 10%Lovings Paws Inc: $5k → 7%Strong Paws Rescue Inc: $7k → 9%Greenpoint Cats Inc: $5k → 17%Whiskers- A-GoGo: $5k → 20%C&Ws Rustic Hollow Shelter: $5k → 8%Olyver & Co: $4k → 17%Equine Outreach: $8k → 10%The Street Dog Coalition: $5k → 11%Old Dogs New Digs: $5k → 12%Camp Tails: $10k → 12%Pepper's Pals Cat Resuce (Spay-Neuter Services of IN): $8k → 16%Meow and Forever Cat Rescue: $540 → 17%Heidi's Kitten Rescue: $5k → 11%Thrifted Kittens Animal Rescue (Emilie's Foster Crew Inc): $5k → 17%Equine Outreach: $5k → 10%Bitter Root Humane Association: $5k → 11%Wings Programs Inc: $25k → 11%Wings Programs Inc: $7k → 11%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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 3 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$59k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
AnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WP
    WINGS PROGRAMS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +246%
  • HK
    HEIDI'S KITTEN RESCUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
  • EO
    EQUINE OUTREACH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CT
    CAMP TAILS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • GC
    GREENPOINT CATS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • OD
    OLD DOGS NEW DIGS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +13%
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
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
3
Purrs and Whiskers Inc

Purrs and Whiskers primary function is to find forever homes for cats and kittens that are abandoned, stray, owner turn in, injured/sick, and/or born in feral colonies after we have fully vetted them by spaying/neutering, vaccinating,…

Animals
4
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Second Chance Animal Rescue Inc

Purpose to rescue, nuture, and find homes for abused and abandoned cats and kittens

Animals
6
Peggys Paws

Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area

Animals
7
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion
8
Unos Home for Wayward Cats and Dogs

Animal rescue organization

Animals
9
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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10
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
11
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feral Change Dba Full Circle Cats; the most unlike its peers is Wings Programs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEIDI'S KITTEN RESCUE: $15,005 · AnimalsHEIDI'S KITTEN RESCUEEQUINE OUTREACH INC: $12,500 · AnimalsEQUINE OUTREACH INCCAMP TAILS: $10,000 · AnimalsCAMP TAILSSTRONG PAWS RESCUE INC: $7,000 · AnimalsSTRONG PAWS RESCUE INCGREENPOINT CATS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsGREENPOINT CATS INCOLD DOGS NEW DIGS: $5,000 · AnimalsOLD DOGS NEW DIGSThe Street Dog Coalition: $5,000 · AnimalsThe Street Dog CoalitionWHISKERS-AGOGO INC: $5,000 · AnimalsWHISKERS-AGOGO INCFERAL CHANGE DBA FULL CIRCLE CATS: $5,000 · AnimalsFERAL CHANGE DBA FULL CIRCLE CATSBITTER ROOT HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $4,846 · AnimalsBITTER ROOT HUMANE ASSOCIATIONWINGS PROGRAMS INC: $31,850 · HealthWINGS PROGRAMS INCPepper's Pals Cat Resuce (Spay-Neuter Services of IN): $7,500 · OtherPepper's Pals Cat Resuce…MY NEW CAT: $5,000 · OtherMY NEW CATThrifted Kittens Animal Rescue (Emilie's Foster Crew Inc): $5,000 · OtherThrifted Kittens Animal …Individual grant recipient: $4,815 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…LOVING PAWS INC: $4,600 · OtherLOVING PAWS INCOlyver & Co: $4,000 · OtherOlyver & Co+1 more: $540 · OtherC & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$74,351Health$31,850Other$31,455Philanthropy$5,000

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

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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 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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