· Private foundation
Just Four Paws 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Just Four Paws Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Just Four Paws Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $63k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dachshund Paws and Pals | $12,000 |
| Peregrine Fund Inc | $10,000 |
| Noble Island Ranch and Rescue | $6,000 |
| Friends of Feral Felines | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Friends of Humane Society Exuma Inc | $5,000 |
| Fluffy Felines | $5,000 |
| Spay our strays | $5,000 |
| Friends of Felines KS | $5,000 |
| City of Hope | $2,500 |
| Stray Cat Alliance | $1,000 |
| Infinite Love 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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Trustees of Tufts College3× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +39%- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +39%
- FOFRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY EXUMA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +415%
Funded once
Sea Turtle Conservancyone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
Cat Rescue
To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.
To trap and spay or neuter feral cats to decrease the population of cats
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…
We are an animal welfare charity. we provide free spay and neuter for outdoor cats in Kent County Michigan
Feline rescue and adoption plus trap-neuter-return program (tnr).
Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.
To manage feral and stray cat populations. The process involves trapping the cats in a humane manner, getting them spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and then returning them to their original location.
Provided for the sheltering, care, medical treatment, and adoption of 35 cats rescues in 2024.
Purrfect Fit Cat Rescue is dedicated to the promotion of "Trap, Neuter, Return" as the most humane method of effecting positive change in the feral cat population. We will provide education and information to the public, find homes for…
Assist the public to trap, neuter, return, and adopt stray cats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Felines Ks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Infinite Love Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY EXUMA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Feral Felines ↗
- Who funds SPAY OUR STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE ISLAND RANCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Fluffy Felines Inc ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FELINES KS INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Just Four Paws 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 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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