· Private foundation
Phelan Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| K9s for Warriors | $12,000 |
| Feeding America | $12,000 |
| Freedom Service Dogs | $12,000 |
| Magical Meadows | $2,900 |
| Forgotten Felines Rescue | $2,500 |
| Humane World for Animals | $2,000 |
| My Sisters Closet | $1,600 |
| AMOR Healing Kitchen | $1,500 |
| Carmel Clay Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Trevor Project | $1,000 |
| Moondance Theater Inc | $750 |
| Friends of the Colony Animal Servic | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $252 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +5%
Feeding America7× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +77%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +87%
Funded once
MAP International Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +140%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +28%- CFChild Foundationone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +2%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
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…
Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN FELINES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Child Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AMOR HEALING KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds RESCUE ROW INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Life For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Elm Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds DOGS OF HILLTOWN ↗
- Who funds CARMEL DADS CLUB INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Salesforce Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Phelan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phelan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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