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The Creaky Dog Foundation at a glance

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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.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$190kAnimals$181kRecreation & Sports$15kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canine Condition Inc$23,985
Frosted Faces Foundation$20,000
Maison Sure Foundation$19,000
Rolling Hills Prep School$10,000
Beach Dog Rescue$5,000
Saving Grace Rescur$5,000
Labradors Friends Dog Rescue$5,000
Inland Youth Soccer Education Progr$5,000
Josh and His Critters$5,000
Precious Pals Pet Rescue$3,000
Earth Angels Rescue$1,500
Old Blue Inc$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 10%Frosted Faces Foundation: $20k → 11%INLAND YOUTH SOCCER EDUCATION PROGRAM: $10k → 11%LEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC: $1k → 14%Josh and His Critters: $5k → 18%EYE TO EYE INC: $5k → 17%EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $4k → 20%LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE: $2k → 12%FEEDING AMERICA: $2k → 14%Saving Grace Rescur: $5k → 10%PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 11%Inland Youth Soccer Education Progr: $5k → 11%EMBRACE FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 14%Labradors Friends Dog Rescue: $5k → 11%ANGELS IN TRAINING: $500 → 14%Maison Sure Foundation: $19k → 14%Beach Dog Rescue: $5k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $45k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $35k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $30k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%Rolling Hills Prep School: $10k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $6k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1k → 14%Canine Condition Inc: $24k → 14%CANINE CONDITION INC: $15k → 14%CANINE CONDITION INC: $2k → 14%CANINE CONDITION INC: $795 → 14%EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $13k → 14%EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $12k → 14%EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $5k → 14%EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $4k → 14%Earth Angels Rescue: $2k → 14%Old Blue Inc: $1k → 14%A PURPOSEFUL RESCUE INC: $1k → 14%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$295k · 5 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$295k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

80%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RH
    ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $171k · revenue -33%
  • TC
    THE CANINE CONDITION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
  • EA
    EARTH ANGELS RESCUE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k

Funded once

  • AH
    ANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • G
    GROWL
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • ET
    EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -55%
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
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
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
4
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
5
No Paws Left Behind

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…

Animals
6
Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals
7
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
8
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
9
Sparky's Paradise Rescue Ranch

Pet rescue

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10
Spencer Pet Rescue

Rescue and adopt animals

Animals
11
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
12
Saved By Fate Inc

Dog rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Precious Pals Pet Rescue; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $170,900 · EducationROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL+2 more: $4,045 · EducationTHE CANINE CONDITION INC: $41,780 · AnimalsTHE CANINE CONDITION INCFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · AnimalsFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INCMAISON SURE FOUNDATION: $19,000 · AnimalsMAISON SURE FOUNDATIONANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CA: $15,000 · AnimalsANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CASAVING GRACE RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsBEACH DOG RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsJOSH AND HIS CRITTERS: $5,000 · Animals+3 more: $5,200 · AnimalsEARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $35,000 · OtherEARTH ANGELS RESCUERolling Hills Prep School: $10,000 · OtherRolling Hills Prep S…GROWL: $7,000 · OtherGROWLEYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE: $5,000 · OtherEYE TO EYE INC DBA T…Labradors Friends Dog Rescue: $5,000 · OtherLabradors Friends Do…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…EARTH ANGELS RESCUE: $4,000 · OtherEARTH ANGELS RESCUE+2 more: $1,500 · OtherInland Youth Soccer Education Program: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFeeding America: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$174,945Animals$128,480Other$72,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROLLING HILLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $170,900 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CANINE CONDITION INC: $41,780 over 2y, 19% of budgetFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMAISON SURE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF CA: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetInland Youth Soccer Education Program: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAVING GRACE RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBEACH DOG RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJOSH AND HIS CRITTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $2,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC12.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to The Creaky Dog Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Creaky Dog 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 24 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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