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Karen Schroth Foundation for Animals

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$634kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$25kHealth$16kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALEM FRIENDS OF FELINES$30,000
PROJECT POOCH$15,000
CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY$15,000
MARION POLK FOOD SHARE$12,500
SILVERTON CAT RESCUE$10,000
EXOTIC BIRD RESCUE OF OREGON$5,000
GREEN ACRES FARM SANCTUARY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILLIAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $10k → 13%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE: $4k → 13%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE: $2k → 13%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $12k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$753k · 19 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
3

Total granted

$753k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SF
    SALEM FRIENDS OF FELINES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +177%
  • CAT ADOPTION TEAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +71%
  • CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SG
    SAFARI GAME SEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • SD
    SALEM DOGS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CO
    CENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS HOME AT LAST HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -88%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cats Meow Cat Rescue

To provide care to feral, stray, and abandoned felines.

Animals
2
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…

Animals
3
Cats Cradle Rescue

Helped adopt over 200 felines and rehome over 50 other felines in the Portland Metro area.

Animals
4
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
Saving Animals in Need Today

Cat care and cat adoption - intake homeless owner surrendered cats provide them with veterinary care feed and house them until adopted

Animals
7
Tillamook Animal Shelter Inc

Boarding stray animals, providing necessary medical care and adopting out the animals to new homes.

Animals
8
Mewtopia Cat Rescue

Pet adoption and care

Animals
9
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
10
Pet Organization Urging Neutering Care & Education

Rescue and rehome abandoned cats and kittens.

Animals
11
All About the Cats Rescue Inc

Rescue, save and possibly re-home animals in need.

Animals
12
Imaginepeaceforpupsrescue

Rescue Dogs and Cats from high kill shelters owner surrenders and abandoned animals Provide vetting and microchipping Get them health certificates for transport to Oregon and Washington state and find them forever homes We arrange fosters…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cat Adoption Team and the most unlike its peers is Friends Involved in Dog Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALEM FRIENDS OF FELINES — $235,000 · AnimalsSALEM FRIENDS OF FELINESCAT ADOPTION TEAM — $87,000 · AnimalsCAT ADOPTION TEAMTHE PONGO FUND — $35,000 · AnimalsTHE PONGO FUNDSILVERTON CAT RESCUE — $25,000 · AnimalsSILVERTON CAT RESCUECOALITION ADVOCATING FOR ANIMALS — $18,000 · AnimalsCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER — $17,150 · Animals+5 more — $47,750 · Animals+5 moreWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $57,800 · OtherWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETYFERAL CAT COALITION — $55,450 · OtherFERAL CAT COALITIONIndividual grant recipient — $46,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAFARI GAME SEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherSAFARI GAME SEARCH FOUNDAT…+3 more — $12,500 · Other+3 moreCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $48,750 · Human ServicesCENTER FO…WILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH — $16,250 · Human ServicesWILLAMETT…PROJECT POOCH — $33,750 · Crime & LegalHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $24,500 · Arts & CultureMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $12,500 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$464,900Other$182,250Human Services$65,000Crime & Legal$33,750Arts & Culture$24,500Food & Nutrition$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALEM FRIENDS OF FELINES — $235,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetCAT ADOPTION TEAM — $87,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $57,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $48,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND — $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT POOCH — $33,750 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSILVERTON CAT RESCUE — $25,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $24,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION ADVOCATING FOR ANIMALS — $18,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER — $17,150 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH — $16,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary — $13,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN ACRES FARM SANCTUARY — $9,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetEXOTIC BIRD RESCUE OF OREGON — $9,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFriends Involved in Dog Outreach — $8,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMEOW VILLAGE — $8,250 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTURTLE RIDGE WILD LIFE CENTER — $5,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS HOME AT LAST HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Maps Community Founda…Leslie G Ehmann TrustThe Larson LegacyThe Autzen FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Barbara Emily Knudson…The Duffield Family F…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR26.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · Leslie G Ehmann Trust · The Larson Legacy · The Autzen Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Karen Schroth Foundation for Animals 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Safari Game Search Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Willamette Vital Health — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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