· Public charity
Lady Freethinker
Nonprofit organization furthering compassion for all species.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $121,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,954 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $209,878 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LADY FREETHINKER | $27,741 |
| CHAINFREE KNOXVILLE | $10,058 |
| REZDAWG RESCUE | $10,000 |
| LAW N' PAWS | $10,000 |
| ZIGGY'S REFUGE FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| ALACHUA COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HO | $10,000 |
| RESCATE FENIX | $10,000 |
| PAWS FOR COMPASSION | $9,877 |
| BEACH DOG RESCUE OF COSTA MAYA MEXI | $8,700 |
| HAPPY COMPROMISE FARM SANCTUARY | $8,700 |
| COMPASSIONATE LIVING | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $156k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: STR ANIMAL CARE · VET CARE-ANIMALS
Stated purpose: SHELTER-ANIMALS · VET CARE-ANIMALS
Stated purpose: VET CARE-ANIMALS · VET CARE-MONKEYS
Stated purpose: VET CARE-ANIMALS
Stated purpose: VET CARE-ANIMALS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 68% of Lady Freethinker’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- RLRomanian League in Defense of Animals2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue ×59
- LNLAW N PAWS2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +412%
- HCHAPPY COMPROMISE FARM AND SANCTUARY2× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- WOWORLD OF ANGELS FOUNDATION WOA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +79%
- SISPCA INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -18%
- ARARLEE REHABILITATION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
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.
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal Welfare
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rezdawg Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ziggys Refuge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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 SAVE KOREAN DOGS USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Romanian League in Defense of Animals ↗
- Who funds LAW N PAWS ↗
- Who funds WORLD OF ANGELS FOUNDATION WOA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAPPY COMPROMISE FARM AND SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BEACH DOG RESCUE OF COSTA MAYA MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ChainFree USA ↗
- Who funds ARLEE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds ZIGGYS REFUGE ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds REZDAWG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION PRO ALBERGUE DE ANIMALES INC ↗
- Who funds RESCATE FENIX ↗
- Who funds Rivers Wish Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Living ↗
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: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lady Freethinker 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.
- Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry Inc — 33% of income from government
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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