· Private foundation
Laura J Niles Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 156 grants below total $1,222,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,508,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $285,800 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k117 grants · $484k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $614k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marshall Legacy Institute | $75,000 |
| Catholic Relief Services | $50,000 |
| Connecticut Humane Society | $40,000 |
| The American Museum of Cutlery | $40,000 |
| Puppies Behind Bars, Inc. | $35,000 |
| The Center for Family Justice | $25,000 |
| Dog Guides of Central Africa | $25,000 |
| Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center | $25,000 |
| New Operation Network Museum of Art | $25,000 |
| Whistle Pig Animal Welfare Corporation (dba Whistle Pig Farm) | $25,000 |
| Horizons at New Canaan Country School | $25,000 |
| Scarsdale Crispi Prison Outreach, Inc. | $23,500 |
| Humane Society of West Michigan | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $20,000 |
| Gallatin Valley Food Bank | $15,000 |
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.
Animal haven is a nonprofit organization that finds homes for dogs and cats throughout the tristate area. it operates out of its adoption center in lower manhattan which has facilities for dog training and grooming as part of the adoption…
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…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.
Provide a temporary home, safe refuge and care for homeless animals. work aggressively to place each animal in a loving, permanent home. strive to end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals by offering affordable spay, neuter and…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.
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Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is On Site Opera 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 153 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 MARSHALL LEGACY INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
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- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
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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: Petco Love · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Best Friends Animal Society · Banfield Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable 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.
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