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Shepard Milner Wardlaw Foundation Magnolia Trust Company Trustee

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.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Animals$863kYouth Development$163kHuman Services$129kEnvironment$117kEducation$95kFood & Nutrition$40kInternational$37kHealth$21kOther$489k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$50,000
SF-MARIN FOOD BANK$50,000
FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY$35,000
ROCKET DOG RESCUE INC$25,000
ABANDONNED PET RESCUE INC$25,000
WIND IN THE WILLOWS EARLY LEARNING CENTER$20,000
ALVARADO ELEMENTARY PTA$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BAY AREA$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROWARD COUNTY$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BOWARD INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO$15,000
SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$15,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY$10,000
BIG CAT RESCUE CORP$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $22k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $20k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 17 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-10%

Still filing today

94%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TS
    THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $302k · revenue +28%
  • FH
    FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $202k · revenue +63%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2025 · $186k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -10%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BH
    BUTTE HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Humane Society Silicon Valley

At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

Animals
3
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
4
Spark Rescue Santa Barbara

It is Spark Rescue's mission to rescue, rehabilitate, medically treat, spay and neuter unwanted dogs and cats and place them into permanent homes. To prevent future un wanted litters we spay the mother of the litter being surrendered. We…

Animals
5
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
6
San Diego Humane Society and Spca

Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.

Animals
7
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
11
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
12
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Florida Humane Society Inc. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $301,500 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CR…FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $201,500 · AnimalsFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INCROCKETDOGRESCUE — $151,500 · AnimalsROCKETDOGRESCUEABANDONED PET RESCUE INC — $141,500 · AnimalsABANDONED PET RESCUE INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $67,262 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTYSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $185,922 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKSF-MAIN FOOD BANK — $100,000 · OtherSF-MAIN FOOD BANKBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area — $81,500 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of the…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC — $71,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BRO…ALVARADO ELEMENTARY PTA — $20,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF — $20,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC — $37,199 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $20,916 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $81,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $81,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BIG CAT RESCUE CORP — $81,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $47,057 · Human ServicesTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $116,500 · EnvironmentWIND IN THE WILLOWS EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $80,000 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $15,000 · EducationFeeding America — $40,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$863,262Other$547,037Youth Development$163,000Human Services$128,557Environment$116,500Education$95,000Food & Nutrition$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $301,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $201,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $185,922 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETDOGRESCUE — $151,500 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetABANDONED PET RESCUE INC — $141,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $116,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $81,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $81,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area — $81,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP — $81,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWIND IN THE WILLOWS EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $80,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC — $71,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $67,262 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $47,057 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $37,199 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $20,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $15,000 over 1y, 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.

Salesforce FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salesforce Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Shepard Milner Wardlaw Foundation Magnolia Trust Company Trustee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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, FY2025

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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