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Plodzien Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$122kHealth$7kEnvironment$2kYouth Development$1kPublic Benefit$40Recreation & Sports$25
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$135k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$9,336
HELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS$2,372
PCRM$2,150
HSUS$703
ASPCA$575
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$250
IRONWOOD PIG SANCTUARY$200
Individual grant recipient$200
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$200
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$200
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE$150
FARM SANCTUARY$150
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$105
WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY$100
PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER$60
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FARM SANCTUARY: $3k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $3k → 14%STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS: $800 → 21%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%K9 KISMET DOG RESCUE: $1k → 6%ANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUND: $4k → 9%FARM SANCTUARY: $2k → 12%HUMANE SOC OF US: $2k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $9k → 9%ALDF: $1k → 9%FARM SANCTUARY: $2k → 12%HSUS: $2k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $9k → 9%ANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUND: $965 → 9%FARM SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $1k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOC: $6k → 9%ALDF: $840 → 9%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $2k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%HSUS: $1k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4k → 9%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $1k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%HSUS: $1k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $1k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $3k → 14%HSUS: $703 → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%HELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS: $3k → 10%HELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS: $3k → 10%PCRM: $2k → 14%HELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS: $2k → 10%PCRM: $730 → 14%PCRM: $650 → 14%PCRM: $650 → 14%PRCM: $600 → 14%STRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%STRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%STRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%STRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $1k → 14%LIVE LOVE: $2k → 14%LIVE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2k → 14%LIVE LOVE: $1k → 14%SPARKY AND THE GANG: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 25 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
39

Total granted

$113k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+66%

Still filing today

68%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +31%
  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +25%
  • SC
    STRAY CAT ALLIANCE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • BF
    BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOC OF US
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • LL
    LIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -75%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
3
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
4
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
5
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
6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
8
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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9
Paws - Preservation of Animal Welfare & Safety Inc

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,…

Animals
10
The Animal Welfare Foundation
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11
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
12
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $42,909 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYFARM SANCTUARY INC: $10,629 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $6,913 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT ALLIANCEHumane World for Animals Inc: $4,203 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,196 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $2,862 · Animals+25 more: $8,292 · Animals+25 moreHELEN SANDERS CAT PAWS: $8,596 · OtherHELEN SANDERS CAT PAWSBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOC: $6,254 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCPCRM: $6,230 · OtherPCRMHUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $5,418 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF USANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUND: $5,102 · OtherANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUNDLIVE LOVE: $3,400 · OtherLIVE LOVEALDF: $2,140 · OtherHUMANE SOC OF US: $2,000 · Other+22 more: $10,054 · Other+22 moreOperation Blankets Of Love: $3,014 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $350 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $250 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $50 · EnvironmentYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $25 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25 · Recreation & SportsPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $40 · Public Benefit
Animals$79,004Other$49,194Education$3,014Environment$650Recreation & Sports$50Public Benefit$40

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $42,909 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $10,629 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $6,913 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $4,203 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,196 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Blankets Of Love: $3,014 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $2,862 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $1,805 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LONG BEACH ANIMAL SHELTER: $627 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH SPAY AND NEUTER FOUNDATION: $600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWetlands and Wildlife Care Center: $330 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $290 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarwin Animal Doctors Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Winnick Family Fo…Thornton S Jr and Kat…The American Society …Greater Good CharitiesAbbVie FoundationThe Carol Moss Founda…Bradford Family Found…PC Fund for Animals C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
The Winnick Family Foundation IncCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Plodzien Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plodzien Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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