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Ppasts 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$65kPhilanthropy$300
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$278k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMMIE'S FRIENDS$4,000
RESCUE ROAD$1,000
GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE$800
Individual grant recipient$800
HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER$500
ANIMAL SAVE$500
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & RELEASE$300
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$300
PETS LIFELINE$200
PAW FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE$200
CARE$200
SIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETY$200
OLD DOG HOUSE$200
SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY$200
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE$100
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 12%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $1k → 6%PETS LIFELINE: $200 → 9%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $11k → 11%SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY: $200 → 12%PAW FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $350 → 14%HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER: $500 → 18%RESCUE ROAD: $2k → 17%WAGS & WALKS NASHVILLE: $800 → 14%OLD DOG HOUSE: $350 → 8%THE GIVING TRAIL: $300 → 10%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $1k → 6%PETS LIFELINE: $200 → 9%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $4k → 11%SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY: $200 → 12%PAW FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $300 → 14%HOMEARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER: $500 → 18%RESCUE ROAD: $1k → 17%OLD DOG HOUSE: $300 → 8%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $800 → 6%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY: $200 → 12%PAW FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $200 → 14%HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER: $500 → 18%RESCUE ROAD: $950 → 17%OLD DOG HOUSE: $300 → 8%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $800 → 6%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY: $200 → 12%RESCUE ROAD: $800 → 17%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $800 → 6%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE: $250 → 6%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%SAMMIE'S FRIENDS: $3k → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $500 → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $350 → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $300 → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $300 → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $300 → 11%ANIMAL SAVE: $300 → 11%SIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $250 → 11%WILDLIFE REHABILITATION RELEASE: $350 → 11%WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & RELEASE: $300 → 11%WILDLIFE REHABILITATION RELEASE: $300 → 11%WILDLIFE REHABILITATION RELEASE: $300 → 11%WILDLIFE REHABILITATION RELEASE: $250 → 11%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 16 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$63k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

69%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

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

  • SF
    SAMMIES FRIENDS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +29%
  • GC
    Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +310%
  • A
    ANIMALSAVE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -89%
  • HB
    HOMEARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • GT
    GIVING TRAIL
    one grant, 2017 · $300
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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
3
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
4
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
7
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
10
Hearthfire Animal Rescue Team
Animals
11
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
12
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pilots to the Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Giving Trail. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMMIES FRIENDS: $33,900 · AnimalsSAMMIES FRIENDSRESCUE ROAD: $4,250 · AnimalsRESCUE ROADANIMALSAVE: $2,650 · AnimalsANIMALSAVEOLD DOG HOUSE: $2,050 · Animals+5 more: $4,500 · Animals+5 moreGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $4,850 · OtherGold Country Wildlife Rescue In…WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE ASSOC: $2,100 · OtherWILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND REL…CARE: $2,050 · OtherCARESIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1,650 · OtherSIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIET…SACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY: $1,600 · OtherSACRAMENTO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETYDAWG ADOPTION WELFARE GRO: $1,550 · OtherDAWG ADOPTION WELFARE GROBARKS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,350 · OtherBARKS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUEHOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVER: $1,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETIEVERIndividual grant recipient: $800 · Other+3 more: $1,000 · Other+3 more
Animals$47,350Other$17,950

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMMIES FRIENDS: $33,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $4,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE ROAD: $4,250 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetANIMALSAVE: $2,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE ASSOC: $2,100 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetOLD DOG HOUSE: $2,050 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1,650 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $1,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING TRAIL: $300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $200 over 2y, 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 SAMMIES FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE ROAD ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALSAVE ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds OLD DOG HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA FOOTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Pets Lifeline Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIVING TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE 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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ppasts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ppasts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ppasts Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ppasts Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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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