· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FRIENDS OF FELINES KS INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Fluffy Felines Inc ↗
- Who funds INFINITE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Just Four Paws Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Just Four Paws Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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