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Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma 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.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$299kHealth$115kInternational$101kYouth Development$49kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$15kHousing & Shelter$14kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ESPERANZA 11-3776448$19,000
SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY SCHOOL$12,500
RVR HORSE RESCUE$11,000
JUNGLE FRIENDS PRIMATE SANCTUARY$9,500
FLORIDA YORKIE RESCUE$9,000
RIDING TO THE TOP$9,000
HEALING HOOF STEPS CORP 47-1954864$7,000
FARM SANCTUARY INC$7,000
SAVE GIRAFFES NOW$7,000
BIRD GARDENS OF NAPLES$6,000
PEACEFUL RIDGE RESCUE INC$6,000
TEXAS CATTLE DOG RESCUE$5,000
OWLS NEST SANCTUARY FOR WILDLIFE$2,000
PICOLINIS ANIMAL RESCUE$2,000
PANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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%RIDING TO THE TOP: $15k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $10k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $9k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $9k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $5k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $5k → 7%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

ME
MI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
VA
TN
TX
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$432k · 16 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

$432k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+33%

Still filing today

38%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • RT
    RIDING TO THE TOP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +177%
  • HS
    Humane Society of St Thomas
    4× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +47%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PA
    PEGGY ADAM ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • PW
    PETS WITH WINGS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · 75% of their budget
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
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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2
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
3
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
4
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
5
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
6
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
7
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
9
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
10
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals
11
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
12
Angel Wing Acres Animal Welfare Soc Lombas
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Panther Ridge Conservation Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Animal Rescue League. 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

28 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. 28 of the 45 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT ESPERANZA 11-3776448: $101,000 · OtherPROJECT ESPERANZA 11-3776448OFF THE ROCKS ANIMAL RESCUE INC 82-4438918: $44,000 · OtherOFF THE ROCKS ANIMAL RESCUE INC 82-4438918UNITED JAZZ FOUNDATION & MENTORING 30-0766845: $43,500 · OtherUNITED JAZZ FOUNDATION & MENTORING 30-0766845Individual grant recipient: $35,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEGGY ADAM ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 · OtherPEGGY ADAM ANIMAL RESCUECLEVELAND CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICST ANNE'S PLACE: $14,000 · Other+10 more: $83,317 · Other+10 moreHumane Society of St Thomas: $42,805 · AnimalsHumane Society of St ThomasPEACEFUL RIDGE RESCUE INC: $17,000 · AnimalsPEACEFUL RIDGE RESCUE INCPETS WITH WINGS INC: $13,000 · AnimalsPETS WITH WINGS INCRVR HORSE RESCUE INC: $11,000 · AnimalsRVR HORSE RESCUE INCJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $9,500 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $9,000 · AnimalsFLORIDA YORKIE RESCUE INC: $9,000 · AnimalsTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $7,000 · AnimalsSAVE GIRAFFES NOW: $7,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $7,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC: $7,000 · AnimalsOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC: $6,500 · Animals+11 more: $39,500 · Animals+11 moreRIDING TO THE TOP: $52,000 · Human ServicesRIDING TO TH…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOU…SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $12,500 · EducationMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $5,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$361,317Animals$185,305Human Services$69,000Education$17,500Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $52,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHumane Society of St Thomas: $42,805 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $17,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPEACEFUL RIDGE RESCUE INC: $17,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPETS WITH WINGS INC: $13,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetSOLID ROCK COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRVR HORSE RESCUE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $9,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSAVE GIRAFFES NOW: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $7,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJustin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS CATTLE DOG RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOwl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPICOLINIS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPLENTY OF PITBULLS: $2,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMcCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Leslie L Alexander Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    14get 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 · 0–50%
    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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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