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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.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Animals$753kScience & Tech$110kHousing & Shelter$26kCrime & Legal$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$570k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WAY HOME INC: $14k → 10%THE WAY HOME INC: $9k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$842k · 15 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$842k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

87%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PA
    PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +24%
  • HH
    HUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +34%
  • PA
    POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $106k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • CC
    CHI CHI'S RESCUE RANCH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
2
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
3
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
4
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
6
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
10
Sirens Cove Animal Rescue Inc

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.

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11
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
12
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spay the Strays Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $153,000 · AnimalsPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INCHUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INC: $118,000 · AnimalsHUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INCPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC: $105,833 · AnimalsPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INCSPAY N SAVE INC: $68,341 · AnimalsSPAY N SAVE INCSOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC: $52,000 · AnimalsSOPHIE'S CIRCLE INCTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $40,000 · AnimalsTouch of Grey Rescue IncSPAY & NEUTER NATION INC: $40,000 · AnimalsSPAY & NEUTER NATION INCSPAY THE STRAYS INC: $34,000 · Animals+9 more: $132,250 · Animals+9 moreTHE PIXEL FUND: $110,000 · OtherTHE PIXEL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…PIXEL FUND RESCUE: $30,000 · OtherPIXEL FUND RESCUEWAY HOME INC: $25,500 · OtherWAY HOME INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…OSCEOLA COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherTHE WAY HOME INC: $23,000 · Human Services
Animals$743,424Other$226,500Human Services$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $153,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUSKY HAVEN OF FLORIDA INC: $118,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC: $105,833 over 3y, 11% of budgetSPAY N SAVE INC: $68,341 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC: $52,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSPAY & NEUTER NATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSPAY THE STRAYS INC: $34,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE WAY HOME INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPolk No Kill Coalition Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetPOLKA DOGZ PET RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHI CHI'S RESCUE RANCH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE: $15,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC FKA SOUTH LAKE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDAYTONA BEACH GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCANDYS CATS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $9,750 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Florida Animal Friend…Petsmart Charities IncCharities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Florida Animal Friend IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Florida Animal Friend Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Franklin's Friends Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin's Friends Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • The Way Home Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Franklin's Friends Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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