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Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc at a glance

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Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$696kHealth$65kYouth Development$6kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kCrime & Legal$3kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
$100
Median grant
18
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY$200
IRONDOG K9 LNTERNATIONAL$200
NOAH'S LOST ARK$200
PROJECT K-9 HERO$200
ANIMAL ANGELS$150
SPEAK UP FOR HORSES$108
EQUINE VOICES RESCUE & SANCTUARY$100
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$100
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$100
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 9%VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER: $500 → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $500 → 10%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $5k → 11%VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER: $500 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 14%VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER: $500 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 12%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$702k · 41 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
58

Total granted

$702k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+5%

Still filing today

51%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CR
    CANINE RESCUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +53% · 37% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +46%
  • VM
    VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue ×50

Funded once

  • A
    ARISTOCATS
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • A
    ADVENTHEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FH
    FLORIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONADVENTHEALTHSUNSYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
3
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
4
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

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…

Animals
5
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
8
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
9
A Better Chance International Rescue
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10
Animal Angels
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11
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
12
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 113 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
36/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAT TAIL CORNER INC: $295,300 · OtherCAT TAIL CORNER INCADVENTHEALTHSUNSYSTEM: $30,000 · OtherADVENTHEALTHSUNSYSTEMARISTOCATS: $19,250 · Other+61 more: $61,675 · Other+61 moreCANINE RESCUE: $342,800 · EducationCANINE RESCUE+1 more: $25 · EducationHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsJourneys End Animal Sanctuary Inc: $1,750 · AnimalsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $800 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $650 · Animals+23 more: $3,595 · AnimalsPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $450 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $400 · Human Services+2 more: $600 · Human ServicesROCK N ROOMS: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $200 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $650 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $250 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $200 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $75 · Environment+1 more: $20 · EnvironmentIRONDOG K9 INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,150 · Crime & LegalCops Direct: $100 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS BEHIND THE BADGE: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$406,225Education$342,825Animals$11,795Human Services$11,450Youth Development$10,200Environment$1,395Crime & Legal$1,350

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANINE RESCUE: $342,800 over 8y, 37% of budgetROCK N ROOMS: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCASSELBERRY KIDZ INC: $6,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SEMINOLE COUNTY SOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJourneys End Animal Sanctuary Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIRONDOG K9 INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC: $515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES: $308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $270 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $257 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOST MEADOWS MULE REFUGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER ELLZEY FOUNDATION INC: $247 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEAVITT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTresports Association: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE WOLF SANCTUARY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoldens Without Borders Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF POLICE AND CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HORSES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCES FOR BLIND DOGS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CANINE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds ROCK N ROOMS ↗
  • Who funds CASSELBERRY KIDZ INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SEMINOLE COUNTY SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • 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 THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND 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.

Seckinger Foundation …Joyce a Ward Foundati…Surendra and Karen Gu…Bradford Family Found…Butchkie Foundation I…The Susan and Ford Sc…PC Fund for Animals C…Paula Knickerbocker F…Grace and Li Yu Famil…Farrell Family Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…Ratna Sabapathy Famil…
Seckinger Foundation CorporationFL34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Inga Ellzey Chis 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 113 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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