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The Fishlinger Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$283kPhilanthropy$70kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
$7,300
Median grant
7
States reached
$561k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOST BALL CANNIE RECUE$16,500
LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MUTTS$15,100
SO CALIF GOLDEN RETREIVER RESCUE$15,000
GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE AND HOLISTIC$15,000
THE LITTLE RED DOG$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
FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE$1,600
CHOW PLUS$1,600
ANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUE$1,110
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RED WHITE BLUE DOG TRAINING: $3k → 13%ANIMAL ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OC: $10k → 10%A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE: $2k → 11%CHOWS PLUS: $5k → 12%MALS HOUSE RESCUE: $2k → 14%LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MUTTS: $15k → 14%GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE AND HOLISTIC: $15k → 10%FURRY ANIMALS BEING SAVED RESCUE: $5k → 11%SHAR PEI NATION RESCUE: $15k → 13%REGIONAL DEPLOYED K9 INC: $4k → 16%Animal Defense Rescue: $12k → 10%ANGEL DOG ALLIANCE: $1k → 7%SHADOWS SANCTUARY: $11k → 13%Two Dog Farms Inc: $3k → 9%LOST BALL CANNIE RECUE: $17k → 37%STACEY HOPE RESCUE: $5k → 5%RED WHITE & BLUE DOG TRAINING: $3k → 13%Animal Assitance League of Orange C: $8k → 10%Donations to domestically registere: $70k → 11%CHOW PLUS: $2k → 12%MALS HOUSE RESCUE: $1k → 14%LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MUTTS: $11k → 14%SHAR PEI NATION RESCUE: $5k → 13%ANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUE: $3k → 10%SHADOWS SANCTUARY: $6k → 13%Lost Ball Canine Rescue: $10k → 37%THE LITTLE RED DOG: $15k → 10%FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE: $2k → 11%LUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE: $8k → 14%League of Extraordinary Mutts: $5k → 14%ANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUE: $1k → 10%LOST BALL CANINE RESCUE: $8k → 37%The Little Red Dog: $13k → 10%VENTURING PACK RESCUE: $1k → 11%LUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE: $7k → 14%SWEET ANGEL DOG RESCUE: $1k → 14%THE LITTLE RED DOG: $4k → 10%Shadow Husky Rescue: $1k → 11%GOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY: $9k → 14%GOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY: $7k → 14%Southern California Golden Retrieve: $16k → 14%SO CALIF GOLDEN RETREIVER RESCUE: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NV
PA
CA
VA
NC
SC
LA
TX
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 12 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$218k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • LB
    LOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +356%
  • LR
    Little Red Dog Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue -47%
  • LO
    League of Extraordinary Mutts
    3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • DT
    Donations to domestically registere
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • SC
    Southern California Golden Retrieve
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • AA
    Animal Assitance League of Orange C
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
2
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
3
A Forever Home Animal Rescue Inc

Rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders and getting them completely vetted, socialized and adopted into loving homes.

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Lucky Farms Animal Rescue

Rescue . Rehabilitate and rehome dogs

Animals
6
Take Me Home Dog Rescue

Rescue dogs that are at risk in high kill shelters and ready them for adoption in forever homes

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7
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
8
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
9
Almost Home Canine Rescue

Resuce, care and adopting canines

Animals
10
Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary

Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.

Animals
11
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
12
Saved By Fate Inc

Dog rescue

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

15 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. 15 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
3/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Donations to domestically registere: $69,925 · OtherDonations to domestically registereGERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE AND HOLISTIC: $22,270 · OtherGERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE AND HOLISTICIndividual grant recipient: $17,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUE: $16,010 · OtherANIMAL DEFENSE RESCUESouthern California Golden Retrieve: $15,700 · OtherSouthern California Golden RetrieveANIMAL ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OC: $10,000 · OtherAnimal Assitance League of Orange C: $8,000 · Other+9 more: $29,004 · Other+9 moreLOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC: $34,840 · AnimalsLOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INCLittle Red Dog Inc: $31,600 · AnimalsLittle Red Dog IncLeague of Extraordinary Mutts: $30,900 · AnimalsLeague of Extraordinary MuttsSHARPEI NATION RESCUE INC: $19,900 · AnimalsSHARPEI NATION RESCUE INCGOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY: $16,370 · AnimalsGOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARYLUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE: $15,300 · AnimalsLUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUESOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $15,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUECHOWS PLUS: $6,400 · Animals+7 more: $14,460 · Animals+7 more
Other$188,209Animals$184,770

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC: $34,840 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLittle Red Dog Inc: $31,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLeague of Extraordinary Mutts: $30,900 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetSHARPEI NATION RESCUE INC: $19,900 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY: $16,370 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetLUNA SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE: $15,300 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHOWS PLUS: $6,400 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSTACY HOPE RESCUE: $4,960 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTWO DOG FARMS INC: $2,800 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetA PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHADOW HUSKY RESCUE INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANGEL DOG ALLIANCE NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSweet Angel Dog Rescue Corporation: $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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Kayne Anderson Capita…Sempra FoundationJason Debus Heigl Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Fishlinger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Fishlinger Family 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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