· Private foundation
Roney 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF VET MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| MAYDAY PIT BULL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| LANCASTER SPCA | $15,000 |
| FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE OLD MUTT HUT | $15,000 |
| TAILS OF GRAY | $15,000 |
| REED'S RESCUE | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GRIZZLY AND WOLF DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| GHOST TOWN DOG RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUAR | $10,000 |
| TOMBSTONE SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER | $7,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MR BALLEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 10 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- SHSenior Hearts Rescue and Renewal3× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +165%
- LSLANCASTER SPCA4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ODOLD DOG SENIOR DOG SANCTUARYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- GFGRAY FACE SENIOR DOG RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +104%
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.
Rescue senior dogs from shelters; people who go into nursing homes; people who have passed.We get their medical needs taken care of; then we will try to find them their forever homes. We work with seniors who are needing a companion and…
To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Dog rescue
Rescue abused & abandoned dogs, urgent at risk of euthanasia dogs, medical needs & hospice dogs to provide veterinary care, rehabilitation, and find homes for dogs that become adoptable. Sanctuary til end of life is provided for those not…
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Dog Haven & Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Polaris Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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. 62 of the 104 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 Senior Hearts Rescue and Renewal ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SPCA ↗
- Who funds GILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ ↗
- Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
- Who funds TOMBSTONE SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds DOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Desert Harbor Doberman Rescue of AZ ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds LOVE PIT The Love Pit ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE WT MTNS ↗
- Who funds THE OLD MUTT HUT ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GREAT SPIRIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MRBALLEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS OF GRAY ↗
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: American Express Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Humane World for Animals Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Yelp Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Roney Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.