· Private foundation
The Andreas Rickenbach 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC | $25,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT INC | $20,000 |
| GREENLAMP | $20,000 |
| ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| LEND A BONE INC | $11,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIPP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL EQUALITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CARAVITA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ONE TREE PLANTED INC | $5,000 |
| DIXIES REDEMPTION ANIMAL RESCUE CORP | $5,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($161k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($161k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PIPartners in Animal Protection and Conservation6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +29%
- PFPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +82%
- OFORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +47%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +43%
- NWNEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +109%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Animal care and rescue
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…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…
The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
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.
Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.
Animals First Aid supports grassroots animal welfare groups worldwide by raising funds, sharing resources, and responding to urgent rescue and care needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Wildlife Center and the most unlike its peers is Lend a Bone 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.
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 12 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Partners in Animal Protection and Conservation ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Animal Equality ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEND A BONE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BUCKETS FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARAVITA FOUNDATION (FORMERLY ANGELS FOR ANGELS FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LOVE ALL ANIMALS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UNCLE NEILS HOME A FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds Free Animal Doctor Inc ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GIZMOS FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Bella Vita Rescue Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Andreas Rickenbach 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.