· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of JOSEPH SLOAN BONSALL & MARY ANN BONSALL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INT'L FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANSJEWS | $40,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $40,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $20,000 |
| TREADWAY EQUINE SHELTER | $20,000 |
| SUMNER SPAY & NEUTER FOUNDATION | $16,986 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SANTUARY | $12,000 |
| NASHVILLE CAT RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MIDDLE TN SPAY & NEUTER CLINIC | $10,000 |
| SAFE PLACE FOR ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE | $10,000 |
| WALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHAB | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMNER COUNTY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMNER COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +41%
- TLTENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +53%
- PVPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SCSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +132%
- WPWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +88%
- TLTenth Lifeone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…
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.
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
Animal shelter and rescue
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
We are a dog sanctuary for unadoptable dogs.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Chance Animal Sanctuaries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMNER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SANCTUARIES INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place for Animals ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMNER SPAY NEUTER ALLIANCE ↗
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: 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
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 Joseph Sloan Bonsall & Mary Ann Bonsall 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.
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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