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Scott Kenneth a Charitable Ta

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$3.0MArts & Culture$196kHealth$128kEnvironment$55kHousing & Shelter$45kEducation$45kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $840k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $174k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$68,500
NEIGHBORHOOD PETS$55,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$50,000
COLUMBUS HUMANE$40,000
LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER$36,800
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$30,000
OPERATION PETS$28,000
FRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$27,000
OHIO ANIMAL WELFARE FEDERATION$26,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS INC$25,000
TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PARTNER$25,000
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%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
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
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SC
DC
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GA

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 55 repeat orgs$811k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
54

Total granted

$2.7M
$646k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NP
    NEIGHBORHOOD PETS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +46%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $149k · revenue +125%
  • WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • BP
    BLOOMINGTON PETS ALIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +30%
  • TR
    THE RESCUE VILLAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +229%
  • FO
    Friends of the City of Cleveland Kennel (dba Neighborhood Pets Outreach & Resource Center)
    one grant, 2020 · $28k

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
Liberty Humane Society Inc

We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.

Animals
2
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
4
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
5
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
6
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
7
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
8
Humane Society of Sandusky County

Rescue and adopt domestic animals. Low cost spay and neuter programs. Prevent animal abuse.

Animals
9
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
10
Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals
11
Pet Network Humane Society

Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.

Animals
12
Humane Society & Animal Rescue of Muskegon County

To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Erie Nature and Science Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesSenior Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr20%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr20%54%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,210

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

92 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. 92 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
70/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD PETS — $155,000 · AnimalsNEIGHBORHOOD PETSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY — $148,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTYWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $125,000 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETYTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $110,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $110,000 · AnimalsTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $95,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $80,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS — $79,950 · Animals+62 more — $1,391,328 · Animals+62 moreLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $90,000 · OtherLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIE…OHIO ANIMAL WELFARE FEDERATION — $76,000 · OtherOHIO ANIMAL WELFARE FEDERAT…HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE C — $65,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER…OPERATION PETS — $52,750 · OtherOPERATION PETSCANINE COMPANIONS NORTH CENTRAL — $45,000 · OtherPET FRIENDLY SERVICES — $40,000 · OtherFAYETTE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $37,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $31,200 · Other+34 more — $431,208 · Other+34 moreLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER — $91,800 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $79,000 · Arts & CultureDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $12,950 · Arts & CultureSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $50,000 · EnvironmentBRUKNER NATURE CENTER — $12,193 · EnvironmentLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $48,000 · Food & NutritionFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $45,000 · ReligionHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION — $22,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $19,186 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $2,279 · Philanthropy
Animals$2,294,778Other$868,658Arts & Culture$183,750Environment$62,193Food & Nutrition$48,000Religion$45,000Philanthropy$43,465

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 budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PETS — $155,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY — $148,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER — $91,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $90,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS — $79,950 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $79,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO ANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $68,800 over 4y, 51% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $50,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $47,350 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $46,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY — $44,030 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSierra's Haven For New And Used Pets — $42,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPETFIX NORTHEAST OHIO INC — $41,764 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTAILS HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOMINGTON PETS ALIVE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $38,850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $37,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE HUMANE SOCIETY — $33,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC — $33,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc — $33,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE RESCUE VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PAWS CLINIC INC — $29,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE FOUNDATION OF SCHENECTADY INC — $26,775 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPAY AND STAY — $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY — $21,490 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClermont Animal CARE Humane Society — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $19,200 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

Petco LoveThe American Society …BISSELL Pet FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Pedigree FoundationPetsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesBest Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…Banfield FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Grey Muzzle Organ…
Petco LoveTX57× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pedigree Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · Banfield Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization

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 Scott Kenneth a Charitable Ta 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 122 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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