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The Binky Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Binky Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$464kHuman Services$11kEnvironment$7kHealth$7kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURREVER FRIENDS RESCUE$1,500
SEA TURTLE CARE & CONSERVATION SPECIALIST$1,500
PUP PROFILE$1,500
LITTLE J RANCH FARM SANCTUARY$1,500
STAY TOGETHER FUREVER$1,500
KEYSTONE RESCUE SERVICES$1,500
CHATEAUX DE GATOS SANCTUARY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
LUPA LEGACY ANIMAL RESCUE$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
LUCKY PENNY RESCUE NETWORK$1,500
IMPACT HORSE - CONNECTING HUMANS & HORSES$1,500
FULL CIRCLE MO FERAL$1,500
THE LIFE OF KAI COMPASSION CONNECTIONS$1,500
PAWSITIVE CARE SNOOPY CORP$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIBERTY HAVEN FARMS: $2k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MD
DE
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AR
TN
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SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 65 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
236

Total granted

$159k
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+32%

Still filing today

40%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VC
    VETERINARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +323%
  • TA
    Truly All Cats Trapping and Rescue Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +66%
  • WK
    WOLLY KITTEN CLUB
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • AA
    AHIMSA ACRES SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • PR
    PETCONNECT RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · 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
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
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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4
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
9
Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals
10
Peggys Paws

Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area

Animals
11
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
12
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandi Paws Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses. 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

158 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 158 of the 351 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)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/158
Grantees still filing
107/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+105 more: $199,461 · Other+105 more+88 more: $171,082 · Animals+88 moreYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $2,000 · EnvironmentCentennial Valley Association Inc: $1,072 · EnvironmentUNITY FARM SANCTUARY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionPURPOSE FARM INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionLiberty Haven Farm Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesHEALING SPECIES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesARLEE REHABILITATION CENTER: $1,700 · Health
Other$199,461Animals$171,082Environment$3,072Food & Nutrition$3,000Human Services$3,000Health$1,700

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVETERINARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTruly All Cats Trapping and Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOLLY KITTEN CLUB: $2,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKOTOR KITTIES: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOOSIER WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION: $2,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetPUP PROFILE: $2,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetAMBER-S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEA TURTLE CARE & CONSERVATION SPEC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSUMMIT LOST PET RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPETCONNECT RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEsther Neonatal Kitten Alliance: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN SUN FARM SANCTUARY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE ADVC CORP: $2,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLIFELINE OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPAWS AND HEROES LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetFULL CIRCLE MO FERAL: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPaw Project of Georgia Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE PET PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPAWSITIVE CARE SNOOPY CORPORATION: $2,500 over 2y, 99% of budgetPAWSITIVE ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIT CARES INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANIMAL LEAGUE OF GASTON COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROAD TO REFUGE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHeartwood Haven: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetI HEART DOGS RESCUE AND ANIMAL HAVEN: $2,497 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTANNERS PAWS: $2,340 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIT'S ALL ABOUT THE ANIMALS INC: $2,333 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHAYWOOD PET CARE INC: $2,157 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE INC: $2,125 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF RALEIGH COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHANCE SHELTER: $2,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMY HAPPY PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEPPERS PALS CAT RESCUE: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHORSE & HOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetORANGE STREET CATS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPAWSTER NASHVILLE: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAVE THEM ALL HORSE RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCOPPER HORSE CRUSADE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS AND LOVE INC: $1,926 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITY FARM SANCTUARY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 Duffield Family F…The Summerlee Foundat…Pedigree FoundationBISSELL Pet FoundationOn Shore FoundationHealthy Paws Foundati…Petco LoveLeslie L Alexander Fo…The American Society …Petsmart Charities IncThornton S Jr and Kat…Two Mauds Inc
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA39.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Summerlee Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · On Shore Foundation · Healthy Paws Foundation · Petco Love · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Two Mauds Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    23get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 351 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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