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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$898kArts & Culture$119kEducation$114kHuman Services$90kFood & Nutrition$71kEnvironment$57kHealth$55kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF VET MEDICINE$30,000
REED'S RESCUE$15,000
FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION$15,000
THE OLD MUTT HUT$15,000
TAILS OF GRAY$15,000
MAYDAY PIT BULL RESCUE$15,000
LANCASTER SPCA$15,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
GRIZZLY AND WOLF DISCOVERY CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GHOST TOWN DOG RESCUE$10,000
ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUAR$10,000
TOMBSTONE SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $10k → 13%WAR DOGS MAKING IT HOME: $2k → 14%THE SINGLETONS: $5k → 11%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $12k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 48 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
45

Total granted

$1.1M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+17%

Still filing today

58%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SH
    Senior Hearts Rescue and Renewal
    3× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +165%
  • LS
    LANCASTER SPCA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • OD
    OLD DOG SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TE
    THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +104%
  • GF
    GRAY FACE SENIOR DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Angels for Sara Sanctuary

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…

Animals
2
Good Dog Rescue

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.

Animals
3
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
4
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
5
Raskels Rescue
Animals
6
Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
7
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
8
Saved By Fate Inc

Dog rescue

Animals
9
Barking Mad Animal 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…

Animals
10
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals
11
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
12
Dogs Unbroken

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Dog Haven & Hospice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 104 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNDER THE SAME SUN: $60,000 · OtherUNDER THE SAME SUNSenior Hearts Rescue and Renewal: $58,000 · OtherSenior Hearts Rescue and RenewalKINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE: $52,000 · OtherKINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL RESCUEGRIZZLY AND WOLF SANCTUARY: $47,000 · OtherGRIZZLY AND WOLF SANCTUARYMAYDAY PIT BULL RESCUE: $44,000 · OtherMAYDAY PIT BULL RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $34,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF VET MEDICINE: $30,000 · OtherTOMBSTONE SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER: $30,000 · OtherBROPHY COLLEGE PREP: $29,100 · OtherALWAYS FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCT: $29,000 · Other+44 more: $369,700 · Other+44 moreLANCASTER SPCA: $50,000 · AnimalsLANCASTER SPCASHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $36,000 · AnimalsSHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARYSAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ: $34,000 · AnimalsSAVING PAWS RESCUE AZLuvin Arms: $33,000 · AnimalsLuvin ArmsOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $24,000 · AnimalsDOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $24,000 · AnimalsDesert Harbor Doberman Rescue of AZ: $22,000 · AnimalsOLD DOG HAVEN: $20,000 · AnimalsFOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY: $18,000 · AnimalsLOVE PIT The Love Pit: $18,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $17,000 · Animals+18 more: $195,000 · Animals+18 moreRAINFOREST TRUST: $36,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $6,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · InternationalST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $48,250 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $23,000 · Food & NutritionGILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMRBALLEN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $12,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SINGLETONS: $5,000 · Human ServicesWARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POLARIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $9,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6,950 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$782,800Animals$491,000International$83,500Food & Nutrition$71,250Arts & Culture$50,500Human Services$44,000Philanthropy$36,450

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 budgetGILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLANCASTER SPCA: $50,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $48,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $36,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetSAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ: $34,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLuvin Arms: $33,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTOMBSTONE SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER: $30,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $24,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFeeding America: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Harbor Doberman Rescue of AZ: $22,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY: $18,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLOVE PIT The Love Pit: $18,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE WT MTNS: $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTAILS OF GRAY: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGREAT SPIRIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OLD MUTT HUT: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMRBALLEN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUN FOR THE WALL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetREZDAWG RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEQUINE WELLBEING RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWalking Down Ranch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETDOG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Street Dog Coalition: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR DOG HAVEN & HOSPICE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmazing Mutts Puppy Rescue: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $6,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD'S PLAY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBABY2BABY: $6,000 over 1y, 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 Senior Hearts Rescue and Renewal ↗
  • Who funds GILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER SPCA ↗
  • 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 OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 TAILS OF GRAY ↗
  • Who funds GREAT SPIRIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds THE OLD MUTT HUT ↗
  • Who funds MRBALLEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION 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.

American Express Foun…The Grey Muzzle Organ…Humane World for Anim…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Greater Good CharitiesArizona Community Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Yelp FoundationAssurant FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…
American Express FoundationNY18.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 104 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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