· Private foundation
The James Billings Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| FANDANGO SANCTUARY INC | $16,000 |
| SPCA | $3,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| WATERFORD SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFANDANGO SANCTUARY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue ×22 · 79% of their budget
Cornell University8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +59%- SISPCA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +43%
- JDJOE DI MAGGIO HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SOSUPPORTERS OF SUMMIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +237%
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.
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.
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…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
The goal of the SPCA San Pat County is to maintain an animal shelter that serves the needs of the county. It serves the county and communities within that county by providing a shelter where people can adopt a homeless pet and as long as…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
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.
Improve the veterinary care of outdoor cats in se florida via spay/neuter
Our mission is to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals, rescue the trapped or injured, provide emergency medical treatment and temporary housing to the homeless animals, and to reduce pet overpopulation through various spay/neuter and…
Cats alive reduces preventable cat deaths and overpopulation by providing spay-neuter surgeries, vaccinations and other life-saving medical treatments for outdoor cats and kittens in the underserved rural community of fort white, florida.…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FANDANGO SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BE THE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTERS OF SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James Billings Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Billings Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Spca Inc: 0% of income from government
- Cat Depot: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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