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In a Little While Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$315kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO DOG LEFT BEHIND$7,000
BUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE$4,000
TINYCAUSE$4,000
GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLYING FUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $12k → 7%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $39k → 9%CROSS YOUR PAWS: $3k → 10%AIREDALE RESCUE & ADOPTION: $5k → 10%KINDRED SPIRITS RESCUE RANCH: $3k → 10%PIGSBURGH SQUEALERS: $3k → 11%LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $8k → 11%DOBERMAN PINCHER RESCUE OF PA INC: $3k → 11%GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS: $7k → 12%TINYCAUSE: $4k → 13%PILOTS TO THE RESCUE: $11k → 20%DOBERMAN UNDERGROUND: $3k → 12%BUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $6k → 15%FLYING FUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 7%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $38k → 9%ANIMAL PROTECTORS OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY: $8k → 10%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $20k → 10%SHADES OF GREY SANCTUARY FOR SENIOR DOGS: $2k → 11%GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS: $5k → 12%ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $2k → 13%BADASS BROOKLYN ANIMAL RESCUE: $3k → 20%BUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $5k → 15%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $30k → 9%ANIMAL PROTECTORS OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY: $6k → 10%SW PA RETRIEVER RESCUE ORGANIZATION: $2k → 11%BUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $4k → 15%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $25k → 9%PAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $16k → 9%GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS: $3k → 11%GENTLE BEN'S GIANT BREED RESCUE: $9k → 9%GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS: $3k → 11%NO DOG LEFT BEHIND: $10k → 11%NO DOG LEFT BEHIND: $7k → 11%NO DOG LEFT BEHIND: $5k → 11%NO DOG LEFT BEHIND: $5k → 11%PAART: $5k → 11%NO DOG LEFT BEHIND: $5k → 11%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 6 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$272k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GB
    GENTLE BENS GIANT BREED RESCUE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $177k
  • ND
    NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue -11%
  • GH
    GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue -69%

Funded once

  • PT
    PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
  • LC
    LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +108%
  • P
    PAART
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
2
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
3
Raskels Rescue
Animals
4
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
7
New Beginnings K-9 Rescue

Provide dog shelter for abandoned pets

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8
Donjas Dogs

Animal rescue and rehoming.

Animals
9
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

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

Animals
10
Ll Dog Rescue

Adopting 31 dogs into permanent homes

Animals
11
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
12
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pilots to the Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Buckeye Bulldog Rescue. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENTLE BENS GIANT BREED RESCUE: $176,500 · OtherGENTLE BENS GIANT BREED RESCUE+9 more: $27,500 · Other+9 moreNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $32,000 · AnimalsNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INCGOING HOME GREYHOUNDS INC: $18,000 · AnimalsGOING HOME GREYHOUNDS INCFlying Fur Animal Rescue: $17,000 · AnimalsFlying Fur Animal RescueBUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $14,500 · AnimalsBUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUEAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valley: $13,500 · AnimalsAnimal Protectors of Allegheny ValleyPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $11,000 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INCLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,500 · AnimalsLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY+4 more: $9,500 · Animals+4 moreMAC'S MISSION: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$204,000Animals$123,000Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $32,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetGOING HOME GREYHOUNDS INC: $18,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetFlying Fur Animal Rescue: $17,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $14,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valley: $13,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAC'S MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDoberman Underground: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKindred Spirits Rescue Ranch: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
  • Who funds GOING HOME GREYHOUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Flying Fur Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds BUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
  • Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MAC'S MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Doberman Underground ↗
  • Who funds Kindred Spirits Rescue Ranch ↗
  • Who funds PAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM INC ↗

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.

Aetna Foundation IncShear Family Foundati…Eqt FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Shear Family Foundation Inc · Eqt Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 In a Little While Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from In a Little While Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to In a Little While Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to In a Little While Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

    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 22 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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