· Private foundation
The Creaky Dog 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Canine Condition Inc | $23,985 |
| Frosted Faces Foundation | $20,000 |
| Maison Sure Foundation | $19,000 |
| Rolling Hills Prep School | $10,000 |
| Josh and His Critters | $5,000 |
| Labradors Friends Dog Rescue | $5,000 |
| Inland Youth Soccer Education Progr | $5,000 |
| Beach Dog Rescue | $5,000 |
| Saving Grace Rescur | $5,000 |
| Precious Pals Pet Rescue | $3,000 |
| Earth Angels Rescue | $1,500 |
| Old Blue Inc | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- RHROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $171k · revenue -33%
- TCTHE CANINE CONDITION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
- EAEARTH ANGELS RESCUE4× · 2021–2024 · $35k
Funded once
- AHANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +31%
- GGROWLone grant, 2023 · $7k
- ETEYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -55%
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 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.
Pacific Pups Rescue saves Dogs & Puppies & puts them with a Foster Parent so they can be adopted by a loving Family
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
No Paws Left Behind relocates pets from high-kill shelters to save lives. Animals are being euthanized simply for lack of space in overcrowded shelters. No Paws Left Behind transports from areas oversaturated with unwanted neglected pets…
rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need
Pet rescue
Rescue and adopt animals
Animal Welfare
Dog rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Precious Pals Pet Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CANINE CONDITION INC ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAISON SURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CA ↗
- Who funds Inland Youth Soccer Education Program ↗
- Who funds GROWL ↗
- Who funds BEACH DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JOSH AND HIS CRITTERS ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS PALS PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds LEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds A Purposeful 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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 The Creaky Dog 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.
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
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.
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