· Private foundation
The Fishlinger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOST BALL CANNIE RECUE | $16,500 |
| LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MUTTS | $15,100 |
| THE LITTLE RED DOG | $15,000 |
| GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE AND HOLISTIC | $15,000 |
| SO CALIF GOLDEN RETREIVER RESCUE | $15,000 |
| SHAR PEI NATION RESCUE | $14,800 |
| ANIMAL ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OC | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY | $9,090 |
| LUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE | $7,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,300 |
| RED WHITE & BLUE DOG TRAINING | $2,500 |
| MALS HOUSE RESCUE | $1,900 |
| CHOW PLUS | $1,600 |
| FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,600 |
| ANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUE | $1,110 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
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
- LBLOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +356%
- LRLittle Red Dog Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue -47%
- LOLeague of Extraordinary Mutts3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue -9%
Funded once
- DTDonations to domestically registereone grant, 2022 · $70k
- SCSouthern California Golden Retrieveone grant, 2023 · $16k
- AAAnimal Assitance League of Orange Cone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders and getting them completely vetted, socialized and adopted into loving homes.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Rescue . Rehabilitate and rehome dogs
Rescue dogs that are at risk in high kill shelters and ready them for adoption in forever homes
The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.
Saving dogs
Resuce, care and adopting canines
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Dog rescue
Dog rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stacy Hope Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Lost Ball Canine Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 LOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Little Red Dog Inc ↗
- Who funds League of Extraordinary Mutts ↗
- Who funds SHARPEI NATION RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds LUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHOWS PLUS ↗
- Who funds STACY HOPE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TWO DOG FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SHADOW HUSKY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL DOG ALLIANCE NFP ↗
- Who funds Sweet Angel Dog Rescue Corporation ↗
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: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jason Debus Heigl Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Fishlinger Family 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.
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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