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Golden Paws Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$3.3MHealth$2.1MScience & Tech$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$525,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$1,250,000
JOHNS HOPKINS$750,000
Individual grant recipient$525,000
INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
THE POTOMAC SCHOOL$200,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$100,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT): $350k → 8%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $50k → 14%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 19%See Attached List: $957k → 6%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (CI): $525k → 7%MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $100k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS: $750k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT): $250k → 8%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $50k → 14%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $200k → 6%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (CI): $500k → 7%BLUE RIDGE CENER FOR MUSIC & CREATIVE ARTS: $25k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS: $350k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT): $250k → 8%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $200k → 6%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (CI): $400k → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS: $250k → 19%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $50k → 6%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (CI): $400k → 7%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $40k → 6%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $225k → 6%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200k → 6%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200k → 6%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $93k → 6%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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 8 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$6.4M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.4M
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M

Funded once

  • MC
    MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +50%
  • BR
    Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · 34% of their budget
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +7%

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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
6
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison County Volunteer Fire Company 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,825,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOHNS HOPKINS — $1,350,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINSWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — $1,350,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY+1 more — $100,000 · OtherMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $850,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Te…The Potomac School — $490,000 · EducationThe Potomac SchoolGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $210,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $718,000 · HealthINOVA HEAL…MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBlue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Environment
Other$4,625,000Education$1,950,000Health$718,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Arts & Culture$25,000Environment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $850,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $718,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potomac School — $490,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $210,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBlue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Golden Paws 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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