· Private foundation
Healthy Paws Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER | $15,000 |
| ENGLISH SPRINGER RESCUE AMERICA INC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2026, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GGGREATER GOOD CHARITIES2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +125%
- HHHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +0%
- POPATH OF HOPE RESCUE2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PAPAWSITIVE ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +338%
- FOFriends of Strays Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help rescue unwanted pets
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Rescue animals
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandi Paws Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerald City Pet 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 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
261 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 261 of the 372 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Strays Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds English Springer Rescue America Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAYV ANIMAL ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Barely Used Pets Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIES AND BEASTS INC ↗
- Who funds JELLYS PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR ALL PETS INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND NINE CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKDOG CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKWALL PETS ↗
- Who funds SIERRA PACIFIC FURBABIES INC ↗
- Who funds PATH OF HOPE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE ↗
- Who funds Micheles Rescue ↗
- Who funds Guardians of Florida Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Best Friends Animal Society · Pedigree Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Banfield Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc
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 Healthy 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.
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.