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National Opossum Society Inc

Our purpose is to serve as a nationwide resource for current and correct diet, medical, and general knowledge of opossums, educate ourselves and share knowledge with others on all aspects of the proper care of opossums, educate the public concerning the benefits of the opossum in the environment, and work with all agencies to improve…

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2023–2024.

Animals$86kEnvironment$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$219k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODLANDS AND WILDLIFE REFUGE INC$5,000
NORTH COUNTRY WILD CARE$5,000
WILDLIFE WORKS INC$5,000
ROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC$5,000
OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION$5,000
FERNCROFT WILDLIFE RESCUE$5,000
WILDLIFE RESCUE LEAGUE$1,000
WETLANDS & WILDLIFE CARE CENTER$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WILDLIFE WORKS INC: $5k → 10%WILCARE: $5k → 8%WETLANDS & WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $1k → 10%NORTH COUNTRY WILD CARE: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF TEXAS WILDLIFE: $5k → 9%OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION: $5k → 17%ROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC: $5k → 16%FERNCROFT WILDLIFE RESCUE: $5k → 12%WALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION: $5k → 14%POINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM: $5k → 9%WOODLANDS AND WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $5k → 4%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 8%ENVELYN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $5k → 12%SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER: $5k → 8%ENCHANTED FOREST WILDLIFE RESCUE OF KENTUCKY: $5k → 14%WILDLIFE WORKS INC: $5k → 10%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

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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 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.

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Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Centre Wildlife Care

Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.

Animals
4
Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitatio
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5
Wildcare Inc

Receive injured or orphaned wildlife, care for the animals including nutritional requirements, medical care, housing, re-education for release, and euthanasia as provided by the conditions of the animal. also assist in wildlife relocation…

Animals
6
Wildlife Care Association

Wildlife Care is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of local wildlife. WCA is committed to educating and instructing the community in the respect, appreciation and care of local wildlife.

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7
Carolina Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

Our organizations main purpose is the rehabilitation of injured/orphaned wildlife.

Environment
8
Critter Crusaders Wildlife Rehabili

Wildlife rehabilitation

Animals
9
Hoosier Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation service providing free service to the public. Also providing education programs and conservation intitiatives

Animals
10
Wings of Hope Inc
Animals
11
Rescuing Ocala Wildlife Inc

Wildlife rehabilitation in Central Florida

Animals
12
Kane Area Rehabilitation & Education for Wildlife

Wildlife rehabilitation

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Opossum Pouch Rescue and Rehabilitation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILDLIFE WORKS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WORKS INCWildlife Rescue League — $6,000 · AnimalsWildlife Rescue LeagueNORTH COUNTRY WILD CARE — $5,000 · AnimalsNORTH COUNTRY WILD CAREWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INCFresno Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Service — $5,000 · AnimalsFresno Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation ServiceEVELYNS WILDLIFE REFUGE — $5,000 · AnimalsEVELYNS WILDLIFE REFUGETHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIATHE OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATIONROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC — $5,000 · AnimalsROWENA WILDLIFE CLINICSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsFERNCROFT WILDLIFE RESCUE LLC — $5,000 · OtherFERNCROFT WILDLIFE RESCUE LLCWILDCARE — $5,000 · OtherWILDCAREENCHANTED FOREST WILDLIFE RESCUE OF KENTUCKY — $5,000 · OtherENCHANTED FOREST WILDLIFE RESCUE OF KEN…WALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION — $5,000 · OtherWALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATIONFriends of Texas Wildlife — $5,000 · OtherFriends of Texas WildlifePOINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM — $5,000 · OtherPOINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM
Animals$57,000Other$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILDLIFE WORKS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetWildlife Rescue League — $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY WILD CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFresno Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Service — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEVELYNS WILDLIFE REFUGE — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWILDCARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFriends of Texas Wildlife — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWetlands and Wildlife Care Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC12.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 National Opossum Society 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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