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South Fork 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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$2.5MEnvironment$438kHealth$319kFood & Nutrition$307kPhilanthropy$220kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$31kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $132,067 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,316 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,249 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Echostar Corp A.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Akashinga, Inc.$50,000
Accountability Board Inc.$42,000
Gnome Inc.$24,000
American Friends of the National Portrait Gallery Foundation Inc.$10,000
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado$5,000
Greenpeace Fund$957
Greenpeace Fund$110
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 (FY18–21, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUSKY HOUSE INC: $10k → 9%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $36k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $65k → 17%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

VT
WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 32 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
39

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • AP
    AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $479k · revenue +117%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $326k · revenue +46%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $165k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $650k
  • GC
    Game Changers Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $307k · revenue +522% · 35% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $200k

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
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
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
4
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
6
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals
9
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
11
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Chance Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alana Faith Chen Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and Shelter
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%51%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%49%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,508

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

57 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. 57 of the 72 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $478,585 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INCHumane World for Animals Inc — $326,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncAKASHINGA INC — $250,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INCJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $125,000 · AnimalsJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $100,000 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $91,000 · AnimalsRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC — $85,000 · AnimalsLouies Legacy Animal Rescue — $80,000 · Animals+28 more — $683,000 · Animals+28 moreIndividual grant recipient — $650,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $229,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYTHE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $200,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTINTERNATIONAL ANTI-POACHING ARLINGTON — $55,000 · OtherELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE — $54,000 · Other+21 more — $206,454 · Other+21 moreGame Changers Foundation Inc — $306,624 · Food & NutritionMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $165,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $56,000 · Human ServicesTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Human ServicesHusky House Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC — $182,000 · Public BenefitMuddy Paws Rescue — $80,000 · PhilanthropyCristian Rivera Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $20,000 · PhilanthropyICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $60,000 · Education
Animals$2,218,585Other$1,394,454Food & Nutrition$306,624Human Services$243,500Public Benefit$182,000Philanthropy$150,000Education$60,000

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 budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $478,585 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $326,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGame Changers Foundation Inc — $306,624 over 1y, 35% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $250,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC — $182,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $165,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $91,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue — $80,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLouies Legacy Animal Rescue — $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DAY ANIMAL RESCUE — $59,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado — $55,000 over 3y, 15% of budget4 Paws 4 Life Rescue — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTAKE PAWS RESCUE — $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWILLOWS WAGS AND WHISKERS — $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCristian Rivera Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION PETS ALIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGNOME INC — $34,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC — $34,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $30,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALL BREED RESCUE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPUPSTARZ RESCUE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFRIENDS WITH FOUR PAWS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE — $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE — $26,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Animals Count — $16,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREBOUND HOUNDS RESQ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Shelter Animal Adoption Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAW SAFE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPosh Pets Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHEAVENLY ANGELS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOUND HOUNDS RES-Q INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetRAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetZEUS' RESCUES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Greater Good CharitiesThe Duffield Family F…Pedigree FoundationThe American Society …Petsmart Charities IncBISSELL Pet FoundationBest Friends Animal S…American Express Foun…Synchrony FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon Foundation
Greater Good CharitiesWA36.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pedigree Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · American Express Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 South Fork Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to South Fork Foundation?

Find your warmest path to South Fork 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $347k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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