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Kyad 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $200 |
| IRVINE ANIMA CARE | $150 |
| NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $100 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $100 |
| BLACK HILLS WILD HOURSE SANCTUARY | $100 |
| FAMSF | $100 |
| YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| UC IRVINE LANGSON ORANGE COUNTY MUS | $100 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO | $100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION | $100 |
| LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTS | $100 |
| PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $100 |
| BURMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $50 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 7% 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
- PAPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2025 · $200 · revenue +4%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue +2%
- PAPAWS AND WHISKERS CAT SHELTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150 · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TFTOLEDO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SFST FRANCIS CAREone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -9%
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.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
To prevent animal suffering and neglect throughout our community and beyond, and to ensure that all animals in shelters and homes are well cared for and treated with compassion.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 75 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 ALABAMA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds THE POPPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND WHISKERS CAT SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds MORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
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: Petsmart Charities Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Pedigree Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · Baird 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 Kyad 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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