· Private foundation
Liebchen's Gift 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CEN | $3,277,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $780,000 |
| LIONS TIGERS & BEARS THE SAN DIEGO | $268,551 |
| TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE | $187,500 |
| YELLOW RIVER ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $170,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY SPCA | $101,784 |
| WHITE WHISKERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $95,000 |
| FIDO FRIENDS OF INDIANAPOLIS DOGS | $90,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $90,000 |
| INDY NEIGHBORHOOD CATS | $75,000 |
| THREE RING RANCH EXOTIC ANIMALS | $70,000 |
| PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SANCTUARY | $70,000 |
| TEN LIVES CLUB | $63,400 |
| HASTY'S HAVEN INC | $60,000 |
| OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $60,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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
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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $643k 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
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS8× · 2018–2025 · $304k · revenue +97%
- TLTEN LIVES CLUB INC4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +47%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $280k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $190k
- SASOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER - INDone grant, 2023 · $35k
- FFFIDO FRIENDS INDIANAPOLIS DOGS OUTSone grant, 2021 · $30k
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 mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
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.
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
Animal Welfare
Animal rescue and housing
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
No kill animal refuge for abused and homeless animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Big Bear Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 43 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 SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TEN LIVES CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDY NEIGHBORHOOD CATS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE WHISKERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds HASTYS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AGAINST COMPANION-ANIMAL EUTHANASIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Liebchen's Gift 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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