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The Danford Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2017
21
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$264k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP$5,000
EDNA RUNNER TUTORIAL CENTER$2,625
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
SAVE THE CHIMPS$1,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TEQUESTA$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
RIDGEFIELD PBA INC$1,000
FURRY FRIENDS$1,000
HOPELINE PREGNENCY RESOURCE CENTER$1,000
ASPCA$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION CT CHAPTER$1,000
PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$1,000
JUPITER INLET LIGHTHOUSE$600
SALVATION ARMY$500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES: $500 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%HANNAHS HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $250 → 10%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 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
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
4
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
5
Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap

Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.

Animals
6
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
7
Flagler Humane Society Inc

We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.

Animals
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
9
San Diego Humane Society and Spca

Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.

Animals
10
Southwest Florida Spay Neuter Serv

The organization is run by a veterinarian with a small staff to provide affordable care to pet owners, animal rescue organizations and work in cooperation with trap-neuter-vaccinate-release providers to control feral cat populations.

Animals
11
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
12
Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring Fields Felines Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDNA RUNNER TUTORIAL CENTER: $2,625 · OtherEDNA RUNNER TUTORIAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION CT CHAPTER: $1,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION CT CHAPTERFURRY FRIENDS: $1,000 · OtherFURRY FRIENDSRIDGEFIELD PBA INC: $1,000 · OtherRIDGEFIELD PBA INCHOPELINE PREGNENCY RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherHOPELINE PREGNENCY RESOURCE CENTERFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TEQUESTA: $1,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TEQUESTAJUPITER INLET LIGHTHOUSE: $600 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $500 · OtherCHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIA: $500 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $5,000 · EducationWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY …SAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $1,500 · AnimalsSAVE THE CHIMPS …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOC…Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Anim…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $250 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 · HealthCARING FIELDS FELINES INC: $250 · Social Science
Other$12,975Education$5,000Animals$3,500Human Services$1,250Health$1,000Social Science$250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANNAH'S HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 21 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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