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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LITTLE TROOPER RANCH$1,000
PAWS ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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 RESCUE: $3k → 18%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $2k → 14%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESUE: $3k → 18%A SAFEFURR PLACE ANIMALS RESUE: $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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doggie Protective Services for Homeless Tails; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 62 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 11% 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 budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDogs Playing for Life Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 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 budgetFRESNO HUMANE ANIMAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBasic Needs Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLUCKY'S CREW ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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

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 Lacey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lacey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 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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