· Private foundation
Lucille Atwell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LADY LUCK ANIMAL RESCUE | $6,286 |
| PAW WARRIORS INC | $6,286 |
| SAVING GRACE AND HER FURRY FRIENDS | $6,285 |
| PET FRIENDS OF NORTH GEOGIA | $6,285 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,285 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| THE LUCKY HORSE SANCTUARY INC | $6,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FORCE OF SOUTH FL | $3,286 |
| GRATEFUL PAWS | $3,286 |
| SOPHIE S CIRCLE | $3,285 |
| SUNCOAST BASSET RESCUE | $3,285 |
| SENIOR HOUNDSABOUND INC | $3,285 |
| PALM BEACH PURRS | $3,285 |
| FUREVER FRIENDS INC | $3,000 |
| BLUE WATERS DOG RESCUE | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of your 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- PWPAW WARRIORS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +13%
- LLLADY LUCK ANIMAL RESCUE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +61%
- BNBEYOND NINE CAT RESCUE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RRREDLANDS ROCK PIT ABANDONED DOGS PRone grant, 2021 · $7k
- BCBROWARD COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PIPOOCHES IN PINES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
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.
To help rescue unwanted pets
Animal Rescue
Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs
Cat Rescue
Rescue and shelter cats
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love for Cats Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Purrfect Whiskers Rescue. 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 13 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LADY LUCK ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND NINE CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds Saving Grace and Her Furry Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds Suncoast Basset Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds FUREVER FRIENDZ INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR HOUNDSABOUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FOR CATS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Force of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LUCKY HORSE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds UFAR ANIMALS RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds POOCHES IN PINES INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH PURRS CORP ↗
- Who funds Angelico Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Runaways Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATERS DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds I HEART ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds OPKIT KITTY SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUE ↗
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: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Edward & Gale McBride Foundation Inc · Fleming Family Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Lucille Atwell Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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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