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Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$537k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2026
15
Organizations funded FY2025
27%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 18
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
7
Total assets, FY2026
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 27% of the organizations Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsReligionSocial ScienceArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving26$537k58%
FY202515$737k27%
FY202416$523k25%
FY202315$554k27%
FY202218$533k28%
FY202117$515k47%
FY202015$456kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Animals$1.4MHealth$765kHuman Services$657kRecreation & Sports$597kArts & Culture$140kInternational$110kEducation$100kYouth Development$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CO
AZ
TN
NC
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc$728,05075%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$275,00070%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$240,00070%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$220,00070%
Watauga Humane Society$165,00063%
Tri County Humane Society$135,00041%
Samaritan's Purse$100,0001n/a
Humane Society of Marion County Inc$75,00031%
Max's Pet Connection Inc$62,500328%
Dreyfoos School of the Arts$60,5005n/a
Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc: $728,050 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $275,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $240,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $220,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWatauga Humane Society: $165,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTri County Humane Society: $135,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHumane Society of Marion County Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMax's Pet Connection Inc: $62,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetRocky Mountain Feline Rescue Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWild Horsemanship Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCaring Fields Felines Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Blowing Rock Art & History Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHumanity Now: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetThe Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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.

Petsmart Charities IncAZ14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation

How much does Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation give?
Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $537,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Animals (37%), Health (20%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Humane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc ($728k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($275k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($240k).
Does Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petsmart Charities Inc, The Cannon Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.
Where is Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation based?
Samuel M and Alma Catsman Foundation is based in FL.

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 55 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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