· Private foundation
Free Yourself Charitable Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC | $10,000 |
| PEYTONS K9S | $7,000 |
| GREENSBURG VFD DIVE TEAM | $5,000 |
| GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY | $4,821 |
| ALL BUT FORGOTTEN | $3,000 |
| PITTSBURGH AVIATION ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM | $2,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PET FRIENDS INC | $2,000 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| AEROBIC CENTER LYNCHFIELD | $2,000 |
| FAITH FORWARD INC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Public Animal Rescue
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Animal rescue
The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…
To rescue homeless animals, provide them with the best medical care and nuturing environment while working to find them a forever home.
Pet stop rescue engages in the rescue and adoption of abandonded and abused animals, assists with the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats and provides assistance with veterinarian services and supplies for these activities.
Helping abandoned neglected and distressed animals
Rescue and rehoming of large domestic dogs
Animal dog rescue group
Animal rescue and adoption.
Rescue dogs and puppies from high kill shelters
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ALL BUT FURGOTTEN INC ↗
- Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PET FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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 Free Yourself Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.