· Private foundation
The Josetta Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $622k
- $50k–250k47 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NBRAN | $390,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE | $350,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $243,099 |
| MIRACLE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE | $240,000 |
| OVERSEED INC | $200,000 |
| JEZREEL INTERNATIONAL | $190,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH HYGIENE INC | $180,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY BAILER LIBRARY | $170,300 |
| ROXIE'S PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $160,000 |
| WINGS OF RESCUE | $160,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $155,706 |
| TOMTEN FARM SANCTUARY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $130,000 |
| TRUTH FOR LIFE | $110,000 |
| MORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +134%
- OIOVERSEED INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +109% · 72% of their budget
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND VETERINARY ONCOLOGY GROUPone grant, 2018 · $315k
- R(RFMH (LYME & TICK BORNE RESEARCH)one grant, 2018 · $300k
- R(RMFH (LYME & TICK BORNE RESEARCH)one grant, 2019 · $300k
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.
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
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.
To end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. The Organization rescues animals who fall victim to abuse and natural disaster.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
The organization's mission is to rescue, transport and provide veterinary care for abandoned and orphaned dogs from all over the united states. the organization is dedicated to placing these rescued dogs in responsible, loving homes, and…
Animal rescue
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…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Good Charities and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. 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 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 249 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OVERSEED INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LIFESAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM'S BLESSING ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG RESCUE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ROXIES PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE SATO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PRISON EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAR VIEW HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRITTANY RESCUE AND ADOPTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Marcus Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TOMTEN FARM AND SANCTUARY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
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: Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Doll Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Verizon 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 Josetta Fund 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.
- Parents for Peace — 41% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.
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