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The Janice Spencer Calkin 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.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$523kEnvironment$374kArts & Culture$115kHuman Services$67kEducation$25kHealth$25kReligion$1kInternational$300
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$45,000
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$45,000
CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC$25,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC$20,000
SAVE THE SOUND INC$15,000
FERAL CARE INC$15,000
GREENPEACE FUND INC$15,000
BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC$15,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$10,000
LITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $500 → 16%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 8%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $500 → 16%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 8%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $400 → 16%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $750 → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $750 → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 → 8%PCRM CLINIC: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 46 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther

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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +46%
  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +31%
  • TM
    THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $74k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH ED
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
8
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
9
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc

We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.

Animals
10
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
11
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Rescued Animals Dba Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community Health CentersUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and AdoptionWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC — $140,000 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINCHumane World for Animals Inc — $84,700 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · AnimalsSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $59,650 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INCFERALCARE INC — $42,500 · AnimalsFERALCARE INCTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $36,100 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO A…CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,000 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETYJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $21,900 · Animals+21 more — $73,350 · Animals+21 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $88,300 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCGREENPEACE FUND INC — $84,200 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC — $48,000 · EnvironmentBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCI…SAVE THE SOUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND+3 more — $11,000 · EnvironmentTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $74,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIM…MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAP…+1 more — $1,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL P…LITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $20,000 · OtherLITTLE BRI…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN S…JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH ED — $8,300 · OtherJANE GOODA…RELIGION AND ANIMALS INSTITUTE INC — $7,000 · OtherRELIGION A…NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $3,500 · Other+3 more — $3,200 · OtherGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $67,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,900 · Human ServicesTrustees of Tufts College — $25,000 · EducationPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $3,500 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100 · International
Animals$558,200Environment$256,500Arts & Culture$115,200Other$102,000Human Services$69,900Education$25,000Health$3,500International$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $88,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $84,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $84,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $74,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $67,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $59,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC — $48,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFERALCARE INC — $42,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $36,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $21,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthside SPCA — $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue — $2,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN WINDS EQUINE RESCUE & RECOVERY CENTER INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HORSES INC — $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN ACRES INC — $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

PC Fund for Animals C…The Susan and Ford Sc…Seckinger Foundation …Amg Charitable Gift F…The Patricia Florence…The Weill Family Foun…Surendra and Karen Gu…The Gerald B Shreiber…Butchkie Foundation I…The Shatz Family Foun…Paula Knickerbocker F…Gat Family Foundation
PC Fund for Animals Charitable TrWY24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The Weill Family Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · The Shatz Family Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Gat Family Foundation

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 Janice Spencer Calkin 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Janice Spencer Calkin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Janice Spencer Calkin 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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