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Herd It Through the Grapevine

Rescue, care for, and rehabilitate unwanted, abused and neglected dogs of herding breeds, concentrating on Australian Cattle Dogs and Border Collies.

$170k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
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Itemized, FY2024
$160k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
States reached, FY2024
1

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baja Street Dogs$30,0001n/a
No Paws Left Behind$30,000118%
Lost Hearts & Souls Horse Rescue$20,000120%
Bella Vita Rescue Inc$20,000115%
Northern California Border Collie Rescue &Adoption$15,000114%
The Perfect Dog$15,000130%
Helping Herders Rescue Inc$10,000154%
Mutts Transport Services INC$10,000111%
Pit Opotamus Puppy Rescue$10,0001n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Herd It Through the Grapevine?

Find your warmest path to Herd It Through the Grapevine through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Herd It Through the Grapevine

How much does Herd It Through the Grapevine give?
Herd It Through the Grapevine reported 9 itemized grants totaling $160,000, out of $170,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Herd It Through the Grapevine fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Herd It Through the Grapevine's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Baja Street Dogs ($30k), No Paws Left Behind ($30k), Lost Hearts & Souls Horse Rescue ($20k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Herd It Through the Grapevine?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Herd It Through the Grapevine based?
Herd It Through the Grapevine is based in CA.

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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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