· Private foundation
Powell 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES | $15,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| COLORADO ANIMAL RESCUE EXPRESS | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SIT STAY READ INC | $10,000 |
| TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| PET PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| SAVE A PET INC | $5,000 |
| ENVISIONING ACCESS | $5,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DFDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +60%
- CAColorado Animal Rescue Express6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +153%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LVLAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +148%
- PFPETS FOR THE ELDERLYone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
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.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Pet rescue inc. is committed to the rescue of abandoned and abused cats and dogs, and uses funds raised to provide veterinary care, neutering and spaying services, food and a home for these animals.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue Aid Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SIT STAY READ INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONING ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE AID CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Barnswallow ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds Companion Animal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Powell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
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.