· Private foundation
Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANINE RESCUE | $48,500 |
| CAT TAIL CORNER INC | $39,000 |
| ROCK N ROOMS | $10,000 |
| VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT | $350 |
| K9 LIFE LINE RESCUE | $200 |
| PROJECT K-9 HERO | $200 |
| IRONDOG K9 LNTERNATIONAL | $200 |
| WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY | $200 |
| NOAH'S LOST ARK | $200 |
| ANIMAL ANGELS | $150 |
| SPEAK UP FOR HORSES | $108 |
| COPS DIRECT | $100 |
| GENTLE GIANTS | $100 |
| EAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CRCANINE RESCUE8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +53% · 37% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +46%
- VMVETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue ×50
Funded once
- AARISTOCATSone grant, 2017 · $19k
- FHFLORIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONADVENTHEALTHSUNSYSTEMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AADVENTHEALTHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casselberry Kidz Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 113 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
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 CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ROCK N ROOMS ↗
- Who funds CASSELBERRY KIDZ INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SEMINOLE COUNTY SOUTH ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Journeys End Animal Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRONDOG K9 INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE 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: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I
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 Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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