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Ronald D & Lily H Glosser Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$36kHuman Services$27kAnimals$23kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$8kInternational$5kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$323k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAST CHANCE CORRAL$5,000
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$5,000
MADRES MUTTS DOG RESCUE$2,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,500
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$2,500
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$2,500
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE$2,500
THE REPORTERS$1,000
FUTURES EXPLORED INC$1,000
THE OUTLAW FOUNDATION$500
GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION$500
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $28k) 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.

area typical 9%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%CHICKS IN CRISIS: $5k → 12%CHICKS IN CRISIS: $1k → 12%CHICKS IN CRISIS: $1k → 12%FUTURES EXPLORED INC: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
AR
TN
NC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$98k · 14 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$98k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • CV
    COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +58%
  • JC
    JOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +3%
  • CI
    Chicks in Crisis Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MZ
    MT ZION HUNGARIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central California Labrador Retriever Rescue

Dog rescue and adoption

Animals
2
MustLuvBoxers Rescue

Animal Rescue

Animals
3
Sky Sanctuary Rescue

The organization's purpose is to rescue, rehabilitate and relentlessly advocate for stray dogs that have urgent medical needs and are in need of care.

Animals
4
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
5
My Chi & Me

Saving and placing dogs in new homes.

Animals
6
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
7
So Ca Bulldog Rescue Southern California Bulldog Rescue Inc

Southern California Bulldog Rescue, Inc. is a public benefit non-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for eductional and charitable purposes. Specifically this organization will (a) instruct the public on subjects useful…

Animals
8
Fostering Foster Animal Rescue

Fostering foster animal rescue is a volunteer based nonprofit. we are dedicated to rescuing animals, primarily dogs, that are in southern kill shelters and that are in desperate need of help. we know that spay and neuter is one way to…

Animals
9
Border Horse Slaughter Rescue

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
10
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
11
Rover Rescue Inc

Rescue dogs and puppies from high kill shelters

Animals
12
Just Strays Animal Foundation Inc

We save cats from suffering or euthanasia by practicing and promoting high standards of care and creating successful adoptions.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Fluff Buddies. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,543

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.

04the grantee network

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 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE — $10,750 · OtherEVERGREEN STATE COLLEGESAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYSEATTLE SYMPHONY — $8,250 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $7,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYMT ZION HUNGARIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherMT ZION HUNGARIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 · OtherMADRES MUTTS DOG RESCUE — $2,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST OHIO YOUTH MENTORING — $2,500 · Other+6 more — $7,500 · Other+6 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE…Chicks in Crisis Inc — $7,200 · Human ServicesChicks in Crisis IncFUTURES EXPLORED INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $11,000 · AnimalsLAST CHANCE CORR…THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION — $4,500 · AnimalsTHE GREY MUZZLE …DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $4,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIE…+2 more — $1,000 · AnimalsTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationTHE CAMPA…THE REPORTERS INC — $4,000 · EducationTHE REPOR…Bucknell University — $2,500 · EducationBucknell …JOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE — $8,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · HealthTHE OUTLAW FOUNDATION INC — $500 · HealthMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $5,000 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · International
Other$61,000Human Services$28,200Animals$20,500Education$11,500Health$9,500Religion$5,000International$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $11,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetJOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE — $8,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetChicks in Crisis Inc — $7,200 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS INC — $4,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST OHIO YOUTH MENTORING — $2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Life You Can Save — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURES EXPLORED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OUTLAW FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLUFF BUDDIES — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ronald D & Lily H Glosser 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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