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GIRTYS PLACE ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY
Our mission is to provide a safe haven for animals that have been abused abandoned neglected or unwanted.
$6.0M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
petsadoptionsheltersrescuedlovingshelterspay neuter
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$34k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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West Houston Animal Rescue
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Animals
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Pets Without Partners
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Animals
3
Rescuing Unwanted Furry Friends
Animals
4
Paws 4 a Cause Rescue
Animals
5
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Animals
6
Peppy Pet Rescue
Animal Rescue and Adoption
Animals
7
Cajun Tails Rescue
Cajun Tails Rescue is a dog rescue organization We save dogs and puppies from kill shelters and others in need and get them vetted and adopted out Our goal is to reduce the stray and overpopulation rates and find
Animals
8
Tennessee River Rescues
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
Animals
9
4 Paws 4 Life Rescue
Dog rescue, adoption, and boarding
Animals
10
Puppy Paws Rescue
To rescue lost and abandoned dogs from state and county shelters, and the wild before they were killed and then feed, shelter, nurse back to health, and place in lasting forever homes. The costs include transport, vet care, food, leashes,…
Animals
11
Snuggle Pet Rescue
Pet rescue
Animals
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Novys Ark
Dog rescue and adoption. We take dogs from the high kill shelters and save them and get them ready for adoption then find them new homes.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Passport for Paws and the most unlike its peers is St Clouds Rescue. 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 12 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
5%
4/82
the rest of the field
14%
5,382/39,116
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.
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.
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX47× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Petco Love · McKesson Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Girtys Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuary?
Find your warmest path to Girtys Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuary through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
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