· Private foundation
The Ed Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE IN CRISIS | $9,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $6,500 |
| ASPCA | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $5,000 |
| THE RAPTOR TRUST | $5,000 |
| WOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE | $3,500 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE | $3,500 |
| ALLEY AT ALLIES | $3,000 |
| ALLEY CAT RESCUE | $3,000 |
| SPCA OF WESTCHESTER | $2,000 |
| IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS | $2,000 |
| FACT | $2,000 |
| STRAYS AND OTHERS | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| CITY CRITTERS NEW YORK | $2,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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
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.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue ×15- HWHumane World for Animals Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +46%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
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.
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.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
To end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. The Organization rescues animals who fall victim to abuse and natural disaster.
Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.
The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Toby Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAYS & OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds THE TOBY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Bruce G Geary Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Ed 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% 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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