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Kurgo Foundation at a glance

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Kurgo Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2019
20
Grants FY2019
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Animals$57kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2019 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k17 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCEVILLE UNITED$10,000
BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS$10,000
PAWS FOR LIFE INC$10,000
HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER$7,500
PROJECT POOCH$5,000
PAWS NEW ENGLAND$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THERAPET$2,500
OPERATION OVERWATCH$2,000
SAVE A DOG INC$2,000
SWEET PAWS RESCUE$1,935
MILITARY WORKING DOGS TEAM SUPPORT ASSOCIATION$1,000
LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM$1,000
MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE$1,000
OPERATION DELTA DOG$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VENTURA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MO
WV
MD
TX
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 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
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
2
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
3
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
6
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
Fur Animal 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.

Animals
9
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
10
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
11
Paws From Afar Inc

At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.

Animals
12
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save a Dog Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lawrenceville United. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWS FOR LIFE INC: $10,500 · AnimalsPAWS FOR LIFE INCBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INCHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP: $7,500 · AnimalsHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFPPaws New England: $3,000 · AnimalsPaws New EnglandTHE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATIONSAVE A DOG INC: $2,000 · AnimalsSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $1,935 · Animals+8 more: $8,000 · Animals+8 moreLawrenceville United: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLawrenceville U…Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual …OPERATION OVERWATCH: $2,000 · OtherOPERATION O…UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $1,000 · OtherUNITED ANIM…PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC: $1,000 · OtherPHINNEY'S F…GREAT DOG RESCUE NEW ENGLAND: $1,000 · OtherGREAT DOG R…PROJECT POOCH: $5,000 · Crime & LegalPETCO LOVE: $1,356 · PhilanthropyANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY: $1,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $1,000 · Education
Animals$45,435Community Improvement$10,000Other$7,500Crime & Legal$5,000Philanthropy$1,356Human Services$1,000Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWS FOR LIFE INC: $10,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $1,935 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELLO BULLY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALEM ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY WORKING DOG TEAM SUPPORT ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…The Duffield Family F…Greater Good CharitiesAmerican Tower Corpor…Petsmart Charities IncAnalog Devices Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…AbbVie FoundationNetwork for GoodThe Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY17.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kurgo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kurgo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%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
    7get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kurgo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kurgo 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 25 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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