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The Lacey Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lacey Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$42kHealth$41kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM$3,240
PHILLY GOAT PROJECT$3,120
CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES$3,000
PAWS FOR PEOPLE$2,850
MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STONEYBROOK FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%STONYBROOK FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MD
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 9 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$86k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

56%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TB
    THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +21%
  • PF
    Pets for Vets Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +67%
  • AF
    A Fair Shake for Youth Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SS
    SPECIAL STRIDES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • PP
    PET PARTNERS
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -85%
  • TE
    THE EQUUS EFFECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hopes Chariot Inc

Provides therapeutic sessions utilizing horses our program offers therapeutic riding and experiential therapy and learning via Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and other activities, providing the opportunity to improve mental health and…

Human Services
2
First Responder Therapy Dogs

We lead the way in addressing the mental health needs of first responders by providing emotional support using therapy dogs.

Public Benefit
3
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
4
Special Equestrians Inc

Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.

Human Services
5
Horsesense for Special Riders Inc

Therapeutic horse riding for disabled

Human Services
6
Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc

To improve the lives and health of children and adults in southwest Ohio with special physical, cognitive, social and psychological needs through equine assisted services and therapies. TRI partners extensively with community organizations…

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7
Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc

"to heal with horses" by offering nationally accredited, affordable, horse-centered therapies and experiences that bring strength, independence, confidence and joy to central oregonians of all ages and abilities.

Health
8
Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
9
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding Center Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for anyone with a physical, mental, or emotional disability through therapeutic riding and hippotherapy.

Health
10
Heavens Gait Therapeutic Riding Inc

Provide emotional, physical and social benefits to children and adults with special needs through a therapeuttic partnership with horses

Health
11
Animal Companion Counseling

Nurturing positive change within individuals and our community through the Human-Animal bond.

Health
12
High Horses Center for Equine- Assisted Services

To improve the well-being of people with special needs through a therapeutic equine experience.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Equus Effect Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crisis Response Canines. 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

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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HORSES HEALING HUMANS INC: $10,250 · OtherHORSES HEALING HUMANS INCALLIANCE OF THERAPY DOGS: $7,500 · OtherALLIANCE OF THERAPY DOGSANGEL ON A LEASH: $5,500 · OtherANGEL ON A LEASHIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPAWS FOR PEOPLE: $2,850 · OtherPAWS FOR PEOPLE+1 more: $1,000 · OtherTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $25,990 · HealthTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INCSPECIAL STRIDES INC: $2,000 · HealthSPECIAL STRIDES INCTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPets for Vets Inc: $12,000 · Public BenefitPets for Vets…A Fair Shake for Youth Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentA Fair Shak…Philly Goat Project Inc: $6,120 · AnimalsPhilly Go…PET PARTNERS: $2,000 · AnimalsPET PARTN…STONEYBROOK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS RESPONSE CANINES: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOPE ANIMAL-ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE: $1,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$31,100Health$30,490Public Benefit$12,000Youth Development$10,000Animals$8,120Human Services$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $25,990 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHORSES HEALING HUMANS INC: $10,250 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetA Fair Shake for Youth Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPhilly Goat Project Inc: $6,120 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTONEYBROOK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL STRIDES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL-ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lacey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lacey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Special Strides Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Lacey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lacey Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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