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Lacey Family 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.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$289kEducation$38kHealth$29kArts & Culture$5kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$3kEnvironment$1k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$397k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$32,500
COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA$19,000
PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE$7,775
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
WESTSIDE OUTREACH AND RESCUE$3,500
MY WAY HOME DOG RESCUE$3,000
NO PAWS LEFT BEHIND$2,000
CATHEYS K9 RESCUE$1,000
PAWS ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER$1,000
LITTLE TROOPER RANCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HANNAH PEARL RESCUE: $7k → 11%NO PAWS LEFT BEHIND: $2k → 12%THE KERN PROJECT: $5k → 8%NORSLED: $2k → 9%LITTLE TROOPER RANCH: $4k → 9%SOMIS VETERINARY HOSPITAL: $3k → 10%FAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE: $15k → 10%WINGS OF RESCUE: $5k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%THE SATO PROJECT: $5k → 20%COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA: $19k → 8%MY WAY HOME DOG RESCUE: $3k → 8%PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE: $12k → 11%WALLFLOWERS SHINE PROJECT: $4k → 15%DREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 4%HANNAH PEARL RESCUE: $3k → 11%LITTLE TROOPER RANCH: $2k → 9%FAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE: $10k → 10%CATHEYS K9 RESCUE: $5k → 18%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%AMERICAN HUMANE: $8k → 14%MY WAY HOME DOG RESCUE: $3k → 8%PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE: $8k → 11%DREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $8k → 4%MURPHY'S PAW: $33k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE: $7k → 11%DREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $8k → 4%BAD RAP: $3k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $4k → 17%AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE: $5k → 11%MURPHY'S PAW: $20k → 10%THE KERN PROJECT: $10k → 18%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $4k → 17%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $3k → 14%THE KERN PROJECT: $10k → 18%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $2k → 17%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $3k → 14%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESUE: $3k → 18%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $3k → 14%DREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 10%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESUE: $3k → 18%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $2k → 14%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESUE: $3k → 18%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESCUE: $3k → 18%SAVING STRAYS K9 SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM: $3k → 18%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 26 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
32

Total granted

$307k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

69%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
AnimalsHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • PS
    PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +42%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +12%
  • TK
    THE KERN PROJECT
    3× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SATO PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • WO
    WINGS OF RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -39%
  • WS
    WALLFLOWERS SHINE PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $4k

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
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
4
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals
5
Rescue Coop
Animals
6
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
7
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
8
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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9
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
10
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
11
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
12
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doggie Protective Services for Homeless Tails and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community Health CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%14%<5yr15%19%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%18%<5yr15%22%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,928

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE — $31,925 · AnimalsPAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUETHE KERN PROJECT — $25,000 · AnimalsTHE KERN PROJECTCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA — $19,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PAAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $17,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONDefenders of Wildlife — $11,500 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeHannahpearl Rescue — $9,500 · AnimalsHannahpearl RescueLittle Trooper Ranch — $7,000 · AnimalsMy Way Home Dog Rescue Inc — $5,500 · Animals+23 more — $36,450 · Animals+23 moreIndividual grant recipient — $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND — $35,000 · OtherDREW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDWESTSIDE OUTREACH AND RESCUE — $11,000 · OtherWESTSIDE OUTREACH AND RESCUEA SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $10,500 · OtherA SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMAL RESCUE INCCATHEYS K-9 RESCUE — $6,000 · Other+21 more — $29,550 · Other+21 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $28,000 · HealthFAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE — $26,000 · Public BenefitEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalKQED INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC — $3,000 · International
Animals$163,375Other$144,550Health$28,000Public Benefit$26,000Crime & Legal$5,000Arts & Culture$4,000International$3,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE — $31,925 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE — $26,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE KERN PROJECT — $25,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHannahpearl Rescue — $9,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLittle Trooper Ranch — $7,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMy Way Home Dog Rescue Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $3,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAD RAP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITY K9 EXPRESS RESCUE & OUTREACH — $2,050 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE RANCH — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESNO HUMANE ANIMAL SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBasic Needs Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDogs Playing for Life Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY'S CREW ANIMAL RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncThornton S Jr and Kat…Pedigree FoundationPetco LoveMary Jo and Hank Gree…The American Society …McNabb FoundationThe Intuit FoundationGreater Good CharitiesMarin Community Found…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Petco Love · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · McNabb Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Marin Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Lacey Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lacey Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lacey Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 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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