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Sigrid Arnhold Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$522kFood & Nutrition$95kHuman Services$50kInternational$45kHousing & Shelter$30kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$7kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOD RIVER ADOPT A DOG$20,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
SANAGA YONG CHIMP RESCUE$15,000
4 PAWS FOR ABILITY$10,000
PAWS FOR PEOPLE$10,000
REFIKI VILLAGE PROJECT$10,000
PROVIDENCE NATIONAL FOUNDATION$9,622
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 (FY17–24, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $45k → 10%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $25k → 9%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $25k → 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $25k → 9%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $25k → 10%CHILDRENS HEALING ART PROJECT: $5k → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $20k → 9%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 10%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $20k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $15k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$645k · 9 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$645k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • IR
    INDIGO RESCUE INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $160k · revenue +47% · 42% of their budget
  • 4P
    4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +8%
  • PV
    PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +86%
  • OC
    OREGON CITY PRESCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +38%
  • SD
    SUNSHINE DOG RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -36%
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
Pet Helpers
Animals
2
Pacific Pups Rescue

Pacific Pups Rescue saves Dogs & Puppies & puts them with a Foster Parent so they can be adopted by a loving Family

Health
3
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
4
Pacific Pug Rescue Inc

Pacific Pug Rescue's mission is to rehabilitate and place unwanted pugs into permanent homes. We strive to educate the public about the pug breed. Pacific Pug is operated entirely by volunteers.

Animals
5
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
6
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
7
One Tail At a Time - Pdx

To improve the lives of companion animals by providing humane individualized care and a chance to know the comforts of a loving home through advocacy education and support of those in need.

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8
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue

Peace of Mind Dog Rescue is a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on the Central Coast. We find homes for dogs whose guardians can no longer care for them and for senior dogs in shelters.

Animals
9
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

—
10
Fifis Friends Inc

Rescue dogs being neglected, unwanted or in danger of being euthanized and find them loving caring homes.

Animals
11
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
12
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pongo Fund; the most unlike its peers is Rafiki Village Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $125,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCPET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesPET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesINDIGO RESCUE INC: $160,000 · AnimalsINDIGO RESCUE INCTHE PONGO FUND: $40,000 · AnimalsTHE PONGO FUNDDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $35,000 · AnimalsDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR …+3 more: $6,500 · AnimalsHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $95,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALREFIKI VILLAGE PROJECT: $30,000 · OtherREFIKI VILLAGE PROJECTHOOD RIVER ADOPT A DOG: $20,000 · OtherHOOD RIVER ADOPT A DOGSANAGA YONG CHIMP RESCUE: $15,000 · OtherSANAGA YONG CHIMP RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $9,622 · OtherOREGON CITY PRESCHOOL: $7,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherRAFIKI VILLAGE PROJECT: $45,000 · International
Human Services$285,000Animals$241,500Other$191,622International$45,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIGO RESCUE INC: $160,000 over 5y, 42% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $105,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAFIKI VILLAGE PROJECT: $45,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON CITY PRESCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSUNSHINE DOG RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $500 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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children's Healing Art Project Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sigrid Arnhold Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sigrid Arnhold Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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