· Private foundation
Plodzien Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $9,336 |
| HELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS | $2,372 |
| PCRM | $2,150 |
| HSUS | $703 |
| ASPCA | $575 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $200 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $200 |
| IRONWOOD PIG SANCTUARY | $200 |
| FARM SANCTUARY | $150 |
| STRAY CAT ALLIANCE | $150 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $105 |
| WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY | $100 |
| PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER | $60 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +31%- FSFARM SANCTUARY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +25%
- SCSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BFBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCone grant, 2024 · $6k
- HSHUMANE SOC OF USone grant, 2017 · $2k
- LLLIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -75%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
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.
Animal care and rescue
Animal Welfare
The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 68 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Blankets Of Love ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds LIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LONG BEACH ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH SPAY AND NEUTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Carol Moss Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Plodzien Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.