· Public charity
Franklin's Friends Inc
To support central florida animal welfare by fundraising for local nonprofit and government agencies that are dedicated to shelter/rescue, spay/neuter, or community education programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOUCH OF GREY RESCUE | $30,000 |
| PIXEL FUND RESCUE | $30,000 |
| PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO | $25,000 |
| SPAY AND NEUTER NATION | $15,000 |
| THE WAY HOME INC | $14,000 |
| POLK NO KILL COALITION | $12,500 |
| SPAY N SAVE | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PAPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC6× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +24%
- HHHUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INC4× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +34%
- PAPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $106k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $36k
- CCCHI CHI'S RESCUE RANCH INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -96%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help rescue unwanted pets
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
Reduce the number of stray cats in South Florida by educating the public through social media, community events, & perform TNR services (Trap, Neuter, & Release)for stray cats. We also rescue injured cats, foster them until homes are found.
The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spay the Strays Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Way Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds HUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY N SAVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Touch of Grey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SPAY & NEUTER NATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY THE STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Polk No Kill Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds POLKA DOGZ PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHI CHI'S RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTONA BEACH GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC FKA SOUTH LAKE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CANDYS CATS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds TEARS ↗
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.
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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 Franklin's Friends Inc 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.
- The Way Home Inc — 51% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
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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