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Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation

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.

$265k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$265k56%
FY20234$5k0%
FY20228$8k50%
FY20216$5k50%
FY20202$3k50%
FY20198$6k75%
FY20185$6kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$156kInternational$80kHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$2kReligion$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IN
PA
NJ
NE
MO
MD
TN
NC
SC
OK
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$40,00010%
Samaritan's Purse$40,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20,00010%
Humane Society of Sumner County$18,00073%
Alive Hospice Inc$15,00010%
Tenth Life Cat Rescue$14,00052%
Second Chance Animal Sanctuaries Inc$12,00015%
Safe Place for Animals$11,50045%
Nashville Cat Rescue$10,50023%
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc$8,00030%
Second Chance Animal Sanctuary Inc$2,00011%
Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio$1,50010%
Agape Animal Rescue$1,0001n/a
Alley Cat Allies Inc$50010%
Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance$50010%
Foster Paws Rescue$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Sumner County: $18,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenth Life Cat Rescue: $14,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSecond Chance Animal Sanctuaries Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSafe Place for Animals: $11,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetNashville Cat Rescue: $10,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Chance Animal Sanctuary Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWaldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSumner Spay Neuter Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation

How much does Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation give?
Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $264,986 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (53%), International (27%), Health (12%).
Who are Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc ($40k), Samaritan's Purse ($40k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($20k).
Does Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Network for Good.
Where is Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation based?
Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall Foundation is based in MI.

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 29 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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