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The Joanne W Gauntt Foundation Dated

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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$12MAnimals$7.4MHuman Services$500kPublic Benefit$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $465k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$60,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,290,000
NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FDN$700,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$300,000
HORSE HAVEN$250,000
ASPCA$160,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI$145,000
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC$60,000
MIAMI DADE ANIMAL SERVICES$50,000
WOODFORD HUMANE SOCIETY$50,000
PAWS 2 CARE COALITION INC$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY$30,000
LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $170k → 17%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC: $72k → 12%FRIENDS HORSE RESCUE: $70k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $195k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2.3M → 19%HORSE HAVEN: $250k → 5%SMOKEY MOUNTAIN ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE: $175k → 10%HORSE HAVEN: $250k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FDN: $700k → 8%WOODFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 10%KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY: $305k → 12%KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY: $150k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY ANIMAL SHELTER: $120k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $950k → 11%ASPCA: $160k → 17%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC: $62k → 12%FRIENDS HORSE RESCUE: $65k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $145k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1.9M → 19%PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE: $75k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FDN: $300k → 8%WOODFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 10%KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY: $120k → 12%KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.3M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $750k → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $150k → 17%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC: $60k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $106k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1.5M → 19%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FDN: $100k → 8%KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY: $105k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $300k → 11%ASPCA: $140k → 17%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC: $60k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 19%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FDN: $700k → 8%KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1.2M → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $120k → 17%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE AND OVERCOME INC: $60k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 19%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $110k → 17%MIAMI DADE ANIMAL SERVICES: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $400k → 19%PAWS 2 CARE COALITION INC: $50k → 13%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

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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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 16 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$18M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-43%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationOther

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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +57%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA VETERINARY
    one grant, 2021 · $435k
  • SM
    SMOKY MOUNTAIN ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -54%

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
Heart of Louisiana Humane Society
Animals
2
Animal Aid

Veterinary services at low cost to athens, tn community.

Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Paws - Preservation of Animal Welfare & Safety Inc

The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…

Animals
5
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
6
Knox Whitley Humane Association Inc

Through adoptions and collaboration with rescue groups, the organization mission is to save animals from euthanization.

Animals
7
Spca of Tennessee

Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…

Animals
8
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
9
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.

Animals
10
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
11
Lake County Animal Services Dba Orphan Dog Rescue

We provide emergency medical services, spays ands neuters for animals in need.

12
Home Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement

To eliminate euthanasia of treatable, adoptable dogs and cats in maricopa county through adoption, medical care, promotion of spay & neuter and owner education. hfg also operates a low-cost vaccine/microchip clinic each week to provide…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $7,630,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $3,050,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INCKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,440,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - A…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $850,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TH…KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC — $660,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENT…HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $555,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER M…HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN — $341,500 · AnimalsHELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVER…PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE — $277,500 · AnimalsPEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WEL…Woodford Humane Society Inc — $235,000 · AnimalsPAWS 2 CARE COALITION INC — $227,000 · AnimalsLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $195,000 · Animals+4 more — $147,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $1,200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF M…HORSE HAVEN — $500,000 · OtherHORSE HAVENUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA VETERINARY — $435,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF F…Individual grant recipient — $255,000 · OtherIndividual gran…BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY — $160,000 · OtherBOWLING GREEN W…HUMANE SOCIETY ANIMAL SHELTER — $120,000 · Other+2 more — $95,000 · Other
Education$12,480,000Animals$4,928,500Other$2,765,000

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $7,630,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $3,050,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,440,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $850,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC — $660,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $555,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN — $341,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE — $277,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetWoodford Humane Society Inc — $235,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetPAWS 2 CARE COALITION INC — $227,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $195,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSMOKY MOUNTAIN ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJESSAMINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLake Charles Pit Bull Rescue — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAcadiana Animal Aid — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP
  • Who funds HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN
  • Who funds PEOPLE PROMOTING ANIMAL WELFARE
  • Who funds Woodford Humane Society Inc
  • Who funds PAWS 2 CARE COALITION INC
  • Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JESSAMINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue
  • Who funds Acadiana Animal Aid

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.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Joanne W Gauntt Foundation Dated 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.

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no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 24 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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