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Golden Retriever Foundation

The foundation's mission is to fund health research in areas that significantly impact the golden retriever; to education the public about responsible golden retriever ownership; and to assist rescue organizations in placement of displaced golden retrievers.

$573k
Granted FY2026still arriving
17
Grants FY2026still arriving
12
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.7MHealth$1.3MRecreation & Sports$16kOther$0
02FY2026 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k9 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $467k
$9,935
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$124,674
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION$115,000
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION$102,800
AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$75,000
AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
GRR OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$11,000
GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF$10,000
ARIZONA GOLDEN RESCUE$10,000
GRR OF ATLANTA$9,935
RESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA$9,000
GRR OF MICHIGAN$8,321
GOLDEN RETRIEVERS IN NEED$7,750
GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GRR$7,078
SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA GOLDEN$5,800
SOUTHERN AZ GOLDEN RETRIEVER$5,533
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA: $9k → 11%SOUTHERN AZ GOLDEN RETRIEVER: $6k → 15%GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $9k → 12%RESCUE A GOLDEN OF THE: $8k → 11%GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GRR: $14k → 16%GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF: $10k → 17%GOLDENS 901: $5k → 17%American Kennel Club CHF Inc: $519k → 8%GRR OF ATLANTA: $10k → 13%GRR of the Rockies: $16k → 7%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $229k → 12%GOLDEN RETRIEVERS IN NEED: $8k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA GOLDEN: $6k → 7%GRR OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $11k → 13%RESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA: $8k → 11%RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF THE: $6k → 11%GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GRR: $7k → 16%AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $155k → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%GOLDEN RETRIEVERS IN NEED: $5k → 17%RESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA: $8k → 11%AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $125k → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%RESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA: $6k → 11%AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80k → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $115k → 12%ARIZONA GOLDEN RESCUE: $10k → 11%AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $115k → 12%ARIZONA GOLDEN RESCUE: $7k → 11%AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $103k → 12%ARIZONA GOLDEN RESCUE: $6k → 11%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%Morris Animal Foundation: $50k → 12%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%Morris Animal Found: $50k → 12%Morris Animal Found: $50k → 12%Morris Animal Found: $50k → 12%Morris Animal Found: $50k → 12%Morris Animal Found: $50k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
OH
CO
NE
AZ
NC
SC
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 10 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$3.7M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
AnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AK
    AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2026 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • AG
    Arizona Golden Rescue
    3× · 2024–2026 · $23k · revenue +18%
  • GR
    Golden Retriever Rescue of Atlanta
    2× · 2024–2026 · $18k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • GO
    GRR of the Rockies
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • GR
    GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +50%
  • GG
    GRATEFUL GOLDENS RESCUE OF THE LOW COUNTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -14%
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
Foothills Golden Retriver Rescue Inc

rescue and rehome homeless golden retrievers and golden mixes

Animals
2
Golden Retriever Rescue Alliance

Animal rescue organization

Animals
3
Golden Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte Inc

The Golden Retriever Rescue Club of Charlotte (GRRCC) is a volunteer-staffed, non-profit organization that rescues, and places for adoption, unwanted, abused, neglected, or abandoned Golden Retrievers in the Charlotte, NC area. GRRCC…

Animals
4
Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals
5
Golden Treasures Rescue Inc

Rescue of Golden Retriever dogs.

Youth Development
6
Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc

Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that has rescued and found permanent, loving homes for Golden Retrievers and Golden Retriever mixes since its inception in 1994. Through the dedicated work of its foster…

Animals
7
Golden Gate Basset Rescue

Golden gate basset rescue rescues basset hounds from abusive, abandoned and unwanted situations.

Animals
8
Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies

Rescue and placement of dogs

Animals
9
Goldheart Golden Retrievers Rescue Inc

Rescue, Re-home and re-educate golden retriever dogs.

Animals
10
Great Dawg Rescue Inc
Animals
11
Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid Florida Inc

Rescue and re-home retrievers

Animals
12
Golden Retriever Freedom Rescue Inc

Golden retriever freedom rescue is a nonprofit, charitable 501(c)(3), all volunteer dog rescue organization. our mission is to rescue, foster, rehabilitate and adopt abused, neglected, and unwanted golden retrievers and mixes to permanent…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue a Golden of Arizona; the most unlike its peers is American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,082,065 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATIONAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,003,764 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION+13 more: $163,195 · Animals+13 moreAKCCHF: $1,259,340 · OtherAKCCHFIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $30,900 · OtherGolden Retrievers in Need Rescue Service Inc: $13,150 · Public Safety & Disaster
Animals$2,249,024Other$1,540,240Public Safety & Disaster$13,150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,082,065 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,003,764 over 3y, 10% of budgetRESCUE A GOLDEN OF ARIZONA: $31,146 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetArizona Golden Rescue: $22,800 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC: $21,068 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGolden Retriever Rescue of Atlanta: $17,935 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGolden Retrievers in Need Rescue Service Inc: $13,150 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA INC: $8,521 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetGRATEFUL GOLDENS RESCUE OF THE LOW COUNTRY: $6,176 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF HOUSTON INC: $5,495 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Golden Retriever Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Retriever Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 21 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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