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Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$85kArts & Culture$53kAnimals$31kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boise Bicycle Project$18,000
The Boise Jazz Society$8,500
The Festival at Sandpoint$6,000
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 (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%guardian angels medical service dogs inc: $368 → 16%Paws with a Cause: $500 → 10%Freedom Service Dogs: $300 → 8%Orphan Acres Inc: $200 → 16%Paws with a Cause: $350 → 10%Freedom service dogs of america: $200 → 8%Paws with a Cause: $250 → 10%California Jazz Foundation: $500 → 14%California Jazz Foundation: $500 → 14%California Jazz Foundation: $400 → 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

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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 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 30 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
72

Total granted

$161k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+54%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BB
    BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +158%
  • TF
    The Festival at Sandpoint Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +68%
  • CA
    CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • VI
    VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +37%
  • AH
    AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +120%
  • IF
    IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +4%

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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
5
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
8
Raskels Rescue
Animals
9
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
10
Border Horse Slaughter Rescue

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
11
Rescue Life Inc

The mission of rescue life is to save the lives of wild, farm, and domestic animals which include horses, pigs, donkeys, llamas, zebras, alpacas,and dogs. the mission includes providing care, shelter, and adoption services. rescue life…

Animals
12
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reno Jazz Orchestra. 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 EnsemblesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community Arts OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Veteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Animal Rescue and Adoption
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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%10%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%56%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr17%4%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
18%
1,676/9,335

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

84 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. 84 of the 102 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/84
Grantees still filing
68/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC — $85,100 · PhilanthropyBOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INCThe Festival at Sandpoint Inc — $23,000 · Arts & CultureThe Festival at Sandpoint IncBOISE JAZZ SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $17,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE JAZZ SOCIETY INCORPORATE…CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,800 · Arts & CultureCARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERIC…RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $2,800 · Arts & CultureRENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA+2 more — $350 · Arts & CultureIdaho Humane Society Inc — $3,425 · AnimalsIdaho Humane Soc…HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY — $2,400 · AnimalsHOOVED ANIMAL RE…GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $2,100 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS DR…HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $1,450 · AnimalsHUMANE FARMING A…EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $1,425 · AnimalsEQUINE ADVOCATES…VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $1,250 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $1,025 · Animals+41 more — $13,046 · Animals+41 morePlanned Parenthood — $2,825 · OtherPlanned P…PARELLI FOUNDATION INC — $900 · OtherPARELLI F…National Trust for Historical Preservation — $700 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $675 · OtherLife Saver's Wild Horse — $665 · OtherCPPS HERITAGE MISSION FUND — $800 · Other+32 more — $8,520 · Other+32 moreCALIFORNIA JAZZ FOUNDATION INC — $1,400 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause — $1,100 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $500 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $368 · Human ServicesORPHAN ACRES INC — $200 · Human ServicesSHELBURNE FARMS — $2,400 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $500 · Environment+1 more — $25 · EnvironmentIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$85,100Arts & Culture$49,950Animals$26,121Other$15,085Human Services$3,568Environment$2,925Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC — $85,100 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetThe Festival at Sandpoint Inc — $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,800 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc — $3,425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $2,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY — $2,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $1,425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA JAZZ FOUNDATION INC — $1,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaws With A Cause — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARELLI FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS — $825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCPPS HERITAGE MISSION FUND — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary — $575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC — $553 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN DRIVING SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDreamhaven Ranch Inc — $400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $368 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornians for Population Stabilization — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HORSES INC — $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoris Day Animal League — $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimals' Angels Incorporated — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

PC Fund for Animals C…The Susan and Ford Sc…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Bradford Family Found…John R Oltman Charita…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Patricia Florence…The Gerald B Shreiber…Surendra and Karen Gu…Seckinger Foundation …Duncans and Tuquis Le…Edwin D Marks Animal …
PC Fund for Animals Charitable TrWY49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datlo · Edwin D Marks Animal 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 Paula Knickerbocker 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 102 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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