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On Shore Foundation

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.

$366k
Granted FY2018
37
Grants FY2018
22
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$2.1MFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$4kPhilanthropy$4kHousing & Shelter$3kHealth$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 37 grants below total $40,292 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,042 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $325,750 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.

$1,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Angels Bark Dog Rescue$3,042
Ziggy and Friends Cat Rescue$2,850
Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue$1,000
Valley Cats Inc$1,000
Whiskers & Tails Foundation$1,000
Angels Saving Those in Need$1,000
Wolf Spirit Sled Dog Rescue$1,000
United Lumbee Nation of NC & America$1,000
Trap Neuter Return Riverside$1,000
Whispering Meadows Animal Rescue$1,000
Witty Kitties Inc$1,000
Visa Volunteers for Inter-valley Animals$1,000
A Feral Haven$1,000
United Pegasus Foundation$1,000
Westside Animal Rescue Inc$1,000
02Your 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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33k · 16 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
250

Total granted

$33k
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+34%

Still filing today

63%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • WT
    Whiskers & Tails Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • WH
    WHISKA HOUSE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +51%
  • AP
    ACTION PROGRAM FOR ANIMALS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SF
    SNIP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • AA
    ANIMAL ALLIANCE WELFARE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CO
    Circle of One Animal Sanctuary
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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

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.

1
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
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Peggys Paws

Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area

Animals
6
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
7
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
8
Saving Animals in Need Today

Cat care and cat adoption - intake homeless owner surrendered cats provide them with veterinary care feed and house them until adopted

Animals
9
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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10
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
11
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
12
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Health and Safety Associates and the most unlike its peers is Diana Gray Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyClassical Music OrchestrasCommunity Hospital SystemsPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Environmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%51%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%53%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%11/286
the rest of the field
13%
240,385/1,819,279

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.

03the grantee network

170 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. 170 of the 288 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
74
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/170
Grantees still filing
118/170
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+95 more — $112,292 · Animals+95 more+93 more — $109,600 · Other+93 moreTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATURE OF WILDWORKS — $1,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $1,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentSNIP FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFor the Cats Sake — $1,000 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND PARROT RESCUE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia House Rabbit Society Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesGibbon Conservation Center — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $1,000 · Health
Animals$112,292Other$109,600Environment$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$3,000Youth Development$2,000Health$1,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANGELS BARK DOG RESCUE — $3,042 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWhiskers & Tails Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSNIP FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetACTION PROGRAM FOR ANIMALS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Feline Foundation of Greater Washington Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEARS-ENDANGERED ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY — $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF THE BURBANK ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICA NETWORK FOR ANIMAL WELFARE USA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLoli's Place Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWild for Life Center for — $2,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUWANNEE PAWS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Spay Neuter Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Place — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER OTTER ECOLOGY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFor the Cats Sake — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND CHANCE COCKER RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCKY MOUNT ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVOICE FOR ANIMALS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE JOYFUL HORSE PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGibbon Conservation Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMAZING GRACE EQUINE SANCTUARY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPAWSITIVE ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEXOTIC HERITAGE CAT ASSOCATION OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE SPAY NEUTER CLINIC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PARROT RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBasic Needs Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPACIFIC WILDLIFE PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR ANIMAL RESCUE & EDUCATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN SIAMESE RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHORSES OF TIR NA NOG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEAL BEACH ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSOCIATES — $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetITS THE PITS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Pedigree FoundationTwo Mauds IncThornton S Jr and Kat…Greater Good CharitiesPetsmart Charities IncMary Jo and Hank Gree…The Duffield Family F…Petco LoveDj and T FoundationCarol and Kent H Land…BISSELL Pet FoundationAhimsa Foundation
Pedigree FoundationTN41.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pedigree Foundation · Two Mauds Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Dj and T Foundation · Carol and Kent H Landsberg Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Ahimsa 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to On Shore Foundation?

Find your warmest path to On Shore Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 288 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $204k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home