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Marion and Richard Graham 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Animals$2.8MFood & Nutrition$15k
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHISPERING WILLOWS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$40,000
DIETY ANIMAL RESCUE & FOUNDATION$40,000
ROAD DOGS & RESCUE$40,000
ANIMAL WONDERS INC$35,000
GRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY$30,000
SCRD INC DBA SECOND CHANCE DOG RESCUE$30,000
MISSION COMPASSION PAW INC$30,000
DOWNTOWN DOG RESCUE$30,000
FORGOTTEN DOG RESCUE$30,000
VINTAGE PUG SENIOR SANCTUARY$30,000
DOG GONE SEATTLE$30,000
MUDDY PAWS RESCUE$30,000
FOXY AND THE HOUNDS$30,000
CALIFORNIA BULLY RESCUE$30,000
WHITE WISKERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAC'S MISSION: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST ANIMAL COMPANIONS: $20k → 8%NORTHWEST ANIMAL COMPANIONS: $10k → 8%PRESENT MOMENT RESCUE & SANCTUARY: $30k → 14%PRESENT MOMENT RESCUE & SANCTUARY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
HI
OK
LA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 43 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
73

Total granted

$1.6M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • RD
    ROAD DOGS & RESCUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +49%
  • WW
    WHISPERING WILLOWS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +55%
  • CB
    California Bully Rescue
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • WD
    WONDER DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -68%
  • BA
    BLACKBIRD ANIMAL REFUGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
2
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
3
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
4
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
8
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
9
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
10
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
11
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
12
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Dog Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Donkey Sanctuary Northwest. 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 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%42%5–10yr19%42%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%48%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/120
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,445

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.

04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 140 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/110
Grantees still filing
55/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROAD DOGS & RESCUE — $95,000 · Animals+98 more — $1,946,814 · Animals+98 moreTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION — $75,000 · OtherTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANI…KOHALA RELOCATION AND EDUCATION — $50,000 · OtherKOHALA RELOCATION AND …DIETY ANIMAL RESCUE & FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherDIETY ANIMAL RESCUE & …VINTAGE PUG SENIOR SANCTUARY — $40,000 · OtherVINTAGE PUG SENIOR SAN…A CRITTERS CHANCE INC — $30,000 · OtherSCRD INC DBA SECOND CHANCE DOG RESCUE — $30,000 · OtherKARMA CAT RESCUE — $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BULLDOG RESCUE DBA SOCAL BULLDOG RESCUE — $20,000 · Other+24 more — $263,367 · Other+24 morePRESENT MOMENT RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ANIMAL COMPANIONS — $30,000 · Human ServicesMAC'S MISSION — $10,000 · Human ServicesMuddy Paws Rescue — $40,000 · PhilanthropyMAEDAY RESCUE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDEITY ANIMAL RESCUE AND FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMUTTY PAWS RESCUE — $20,000 · EnvironmentBe Like Josh Foundation — $10,000 · HealthSNORT Rescue Inc — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Animals$2,041,814Other$568,367Human Services$80,000Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Environment$20,000Health$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROAD DOGS & RESCUE — $95,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetI Stand With My Pack Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWHISPERING WILLOWS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornia Bully Rescue — $50,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetANIMAL WONDERS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLIONEL S LEGACY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMISSION COMPASSION PAW INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPRESENT MOMENT RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $40,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWONDER DOG RESCUE — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFOXY AND THE HOUNDS — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDOG GONE SEATTLE — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLILY'S PAD RESCUE — $40,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetDEITY ANIMAL RESCUE AND FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOREGON DONKEY SANCTUARY NORTHWEST — $40,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTRUE & FAITHFUL PET RESCUE MISSION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDowntown Dog Rescue — $40,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetGRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY — $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE — $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetK9 KISMET DOG RESCUE — $37,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetHEARTS & BONES ANIMAL RESCUE — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetREAL TIME RESCUE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetWHITE WHISKERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY — $33,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetREAL GOOD DOG RESCUE — $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBlue Man Dog — $30,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFeline Urgent Rescue of Western North Carolina Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTobies Small Dog Rescue — $30,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetHOUSE RABBIT NETWORK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKitty Karma of Delray Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetALIVE Rescue NFP — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ANIMAL COMPANIONS — $30,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPRECIOUS PALS PET RESCUE — $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPAWSITIVELY SAVED RESCUE — $30,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCHIHUAHUA RESCUE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMIDAMERICA BOSTON TERRIER RESCUE — $20,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetMUTTY PAWS RESCUE — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMile High Canine Rescue Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWhat if Farms Inc — $19,419 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetACE OF HEARTS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOR THE BIRDS OF ACADIANA — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGATEWAY PET GUARDIANS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACKBIRD ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSCOOT TO THE STARS RESCUE — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHERISHED TAILS SENIOR SANCTUARY — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
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.

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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…Mary Jo and Hank Gree…Greater Good CharitiesMax Goldenson Foundat…The Duffield Family F…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Pedigree FoundationBest Friends Animal S…Sempra FoundationKayne Anderson Capita…Healthy Paws Foundati…
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA33.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoption · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Pedigree Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Sempra Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Healthy Paws 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 Marion and Richard Graham 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Adopt a Cat Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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