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Ketenbrink Animal Foundation at a glance

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Ketenbrink Animal 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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$1.0M
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAPPY ACRES PET RESCUE$20,000
WISHBONE CANINE RESCUE$20,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY$20,000
TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY$20,000
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION$20,000
WILD CANINE RESCUE$20,000
YOGA 4 CATS$15,000
EFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY$15,000
SAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE$15,000
THE STREET DOG COALITION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE STREET DOG COALITION: $5k → 11%TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $20k → 9%EFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $15k → 9%SAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 11%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%WISHBONE CANINE RESCUE: $20k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $80k → 15%TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%SAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 11%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%WISHBONE CANINE RESCUE: $15k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $80k → 15%TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%SAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 11%Second Chance Pet Adoptions Foundation: $20k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $20k → 11%WISHBONE CANINE RESCUE: $10k → 11%Humane Society of Decatur and Macon County: $80k → 15%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $20k → 11%RUBY'S RESCUE & RETREAP NFP: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $55k → 15%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $20k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $50k → 15%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%LEIA'S HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $30k → 15%LEIA'S HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $30k → 15%Leia's Hope Canine Rescue: $30k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $20k → 15%LEIA'S HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $20k → 15%LEIA'S HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $5k → 15%HAPPY ACRES PET RESCUE: $20k → 15%HAPPY ACRES PET RESCUE: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-39%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +149% · 35% of their budget
  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +69% · 38% of their budget
  • WC
    WILD CANINE RESCUE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • RR
    RUBYS RESCUE & RETREAT NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
3
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
4
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
6
Almost Home Canine Rescue

Resuce, care and adopting canines

Animals
7
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
10
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
11
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Canine Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Happy Acres Pet Rescue. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOGA4CATS: $135,000 · AnimalsYOGA4CATSSECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATIONWILD CANINE RESCUE: $110,000 · AnimalsWILD CANINE RESCUEWISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $45,000 · AnimalsWISH BONE CANINE RESCUETAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $40,000 · AnimalsTAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETYEFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $35,000 · AnimalsEFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARYHappy Acres Pet Rescue: $25,000 · Animals+2 more: $15,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $365,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTYLEIAS HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $115,000 · OtherLEIAS HOPE CANINE RESCUESAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE: $35,000 · OtherSAVED BY GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE
Animals$525,000Other$515,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $365,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetYOGA4CATS: $135,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetSECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetLEIAS HOPE CANINE RESCUE: $115,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetWILD CANINE RESCUE: $110,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetWISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $45,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEFFINGHAM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $35,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHappy Acres Pet Rescue: $25,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetRUBYS RESCUE & RETREAT NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget
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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ketenbrink Animal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ketenbrink Animal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ketenbrink Animal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ketenbrink Animal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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