· Private foundation
Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 OF FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| MACC FUND | $5,000 |
| POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BRADY'S K-9 FUND | $5,000 |
| COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISSTANCE | $5,000 |
| AIDS WALK NEW YORK | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +9%
- PZPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +52%
- RIRAWHIDE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OFone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HHHORIZON HOME CARE & HOSPICE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +6%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISHAWAKAone grant, 2017 · $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.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.
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.
To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Animal rescue, care and placement.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Animal rescue
None
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith Hope & Love Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NORTH WINDS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PRIMATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PET REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceable Primate Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WESTERN WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds KIDS CHANCE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE EQUINE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds RED WOLF SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith Hope & Love 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney 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.