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Edwin D Marks Animal 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.

$4k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2023.

Animals$11kPublic Benefit$450Human Services$325Health$225Education$200Environment$25
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PET COTTAGE INC$2,500
GUARDIAN PET TRUST INC$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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $425) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $125 → 16%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $100 → 16%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $75 → 16%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 11%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $25 → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8k · 32 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
10

Total granted

$8k
$825

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+55%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • GG
    GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD
    3× · 2018–2020 · $450 · revenue +97%
  • LL
    LITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $375 · revenue +216%
  • EV
    Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary
    3× · 2018–2020 · $325 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CL
    COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue +55%
  • PH
    PAWS & HOOVES ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100

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
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
2
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
3
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
4
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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5
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
6
Pinehaven Farm a Sanctuary Inc

Pinehaven Farm is a non-profit sanctuary dedicated to dogs, cats, horses and other animals in need of a permanent home and the prevention of future overpopulation through education programs on spraying and neutering.

Animals
7
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
8
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
9
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
10
Muddy Paws Farm Rescue

Muddy Paws Farm Rescue provides a loving forever home to farm animals who are neglected, abused, bound for slaughter, or otherwise need a new forever home.

Animals
11
Puppy Dog Ranch

A small No Kill Rescue and Sanctuary for unwanted, homeless, abused, neglected, blind, deaf, disabled, medically dependent, special needs and unadoptable dogs and puppies.

Animals
12
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equine Advocates Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%50%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pet Cottage Inc — $2,500 · AnimalsPet Cottage IncPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $625 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches IncDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC — $500 · AnimalsDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INCGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $450 · AnimalsLITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INC — $375 · AnimalsLittle Shelter Animal Adoption Center Inc — $375 · AnimalsEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary — $325 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE INC — $325 · Animals+23 more — $3,602 · Animals+23 moreGUARDIAN PET TRUST INC — $1,000 · OtherGUARDIAN PET TRUST …WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $325 · OtherWWP INC - WOUNDED W…CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC — $250 · OtherCASTLETON RANCH HOR…COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER INC — $200 · OtherCOMPUTER LEARNING C…IZZY'S LOVE EQUINE RESCUE INC — $175 · OtherIZZY'S LOVE EQUINE …SOUTHERN WINDS EQUINE RESCUE & RECOVERY CENTER INC — $150 · OtherSOUTHERN WINDS EQUI…+1 more — $25 · OtherAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $300 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $150 · Public BenefitORPHAN ACRES INC — $300 · Human ServicesTrustBridge Foundation Inc — $125 · Human ServicesPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $100 · HealthTHE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC — $25 · Environment
Animals$9,077Other$2,125Public Benefit$450Human Services$425Health$100Environment$25

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPet Cottage Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC — $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INC — $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Shelter Animal Adoption Center Inc — $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary — $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN ACRES INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC — $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS — $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC — $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE — $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIZZY'S LOVE EQUINE RESCUE INC — $175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE — $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRing Dog Rescue Inc — $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN WINDS EQUINE RESCUE & RECOVERY CENTER INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc — $127 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustBridge Foundation Inc — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLION HABITAT RANCH INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER PRESERVATION CENTER INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Joyce a Ward Foundati…PC Fund for Animals C…Surendra and Karen Gu…Bradford Family Found…Amg Charitable Gift F…Farrell Family Founda…Paula Knickerbocker F…The Susan and Ford Sc…The J R Stein Family …Bernard Weinberg Foun…John R Oltman Charita…Pam Lewis Foundation
Joyce a Ward FoundationCA36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joyce a Ward Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Pam Lewis 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 Edwin D Marks Animal 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY20–25

    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.

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    How do I get to Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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