· Private foundation
The John J & Frank Sparacio Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $418k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHT STAR OF BETHLEHEM | $140,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE | $52,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIV FDN | $37,500 |
| STREET DOG COALITION | $30,512 |
| ACNM FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AFARI-AMERICAN FRIENDS ASIAN RURAL INST | $30,000 |
| ZOZU PROJECT (EDUCHRIST) | $29,782 |
| KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER | $25,000 |
| WOLF POINT POUND PUPPIES ANIMAL RESCUE | $25,000 |
| POSITIVE TAILS | $20,512 |
| REALITY MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE SOBADA RESERVATION SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CARE4 PAWS | $20,000 |
| HOPI SCHOOL ART & LANGUAGE IMMERSION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MIDWIFE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $484k · revenue +112%
- BSBRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM NFP5× · 2018–2022 · $445k · revenue +161%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
- NCNorth Central Collegeone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +20%
- NINON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $65k
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.
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.
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…
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…
To empower Native communities to become healthier, happier, and safer by providing information, support and resources for animal care programs in Indian country.
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…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Rescue Center and the most unlike its peers is Ileap. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
70 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. 70 of the 112 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.
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- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds REALITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
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- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Street Dog Coalition ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds COSLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TAILS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ORPHAN ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER ↗
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: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Ethel Frends Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · Bragg Health Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Novo Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Good Charities
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 John J & Frank Sparacio 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
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.