· Private foundation
Jason Debus Heigl Foundation
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.
The 17 grants below total $124,951 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,649 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $32,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,805 |
| ANIMAL BASIC CARE NETWORK | $20,000 |
| ROCK AND RESCUE | $12,000 |
| DOGGIE BONEZ INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,200 |
| CAROLINA ANIMAL NETWORK | $4,250 |
| ANGELS AMONG US | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,923 |
| HEAVEN'S HOME RESCUE INC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,223 |
| ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNT | $1,000 |
| PET CONNECTION PROGRAMS INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GRANDMA BETTY'S ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your 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.
32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- HUHEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS3× · 2019–2023 · $121k · revenue +33%
- K4Kinder 4 Rescue3× · 2020–2022 · $48k · revenue +17%
- RRROCK & RESCUE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +1% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- RPRESCUE PETS SERVING VETSone grant, 2022 · $80k
- AKAMANDA KINLEYCRAZY K-9one grant, 2022 · $47k
- CCConcerned Citizens Animal Rescue Incone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -37%
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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
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.
Saving dogs
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders and getting them completely vetted, socialized and adopted into loving homes.
Dog rescue
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Dog rescue
The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concerned Citizens Animal Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angels Among Us. 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 10 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 91 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 Little Red Dog Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Heavens Home Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD HUSKIES ↗
- Who funds MARTINA ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LINDA BLAIR WORLD HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kinder 4 Rescue ↗
- Who funds ROCK & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Doggie Bonez Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BASIC CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ANIMAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Concerned Citizens Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON K-911 RESCUEINC ↗
- Who funds PHILOZOIA ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DELANEYS DOG ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LOLA & FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COAST DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLJOY 4 PAWS ↗
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: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoption · Sempra Foundation · Community Outreach Promoting Emergency Preparedness · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Fishlinger Family Foundation · Hope for Paws · The Anthony & Trissa Napoleon Foundation
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 Jason Debus Heigl 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.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% 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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