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The Lebel Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lebel Family 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$90kHealth$18kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$4kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
MISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETY$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,371
Individual grant recipient$2,151
RUFF RUCK CHALLENGE$2,085
PLEASANT HEARTS PET FOOD PANTRY$2,000
COMMUNITY CAT CREW$2,000
SHELTER ANIMAL$2,000
WEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION$2,000
PET TALES RESCUE BOARD$2,000
BESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE$2,000
POUND BUDDIES$1,996
GRAND RAPIDS PIT BULL ALLIANCE$1,937
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FERAL CAT SOLUTIONS: $2k → 11%BESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2k → 8%FOCUS ON FERALS: $2k → 11%MISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MUSKEGON: $11k → 15%CANNONSVILLE CRITTERS: $2k → 15%MUNDY TOWNSHIP COMMONS: $2k → 16%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FERAL CAT SOLUTIONS: $2k → 11%A FERAL HAVEN: $2k → 8%GRAND RAPIDS PIT BULL ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%BIG LAKE HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 15%CANNONSVILLE CRITTERS: $2k → 15%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FERAL CAT SOLUTIONS: $2k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS PIT BULL ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%FAITHFUL TO FELINES: $2k → 15%CANNONSVILLE CRITTERS: $2k → 15%PAWS RESCUE: $2k → 16%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%HEAVEN CAN WAIT: $2k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CATS: $2k → 11%FAITHFUL TO FELINES: $2k → 15%PAWS RESCUE: $2k → 16%C-SNIP: $2k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CATS: $2k → 11%FAITHFUL TO FELINES: $2k → 15%SHELTER ANIMAL: $2k → 16%SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY CAT CREW: $2k → 11%POUND BUDDIES: $2k → 15%SHELTER ANIMAL: $2k → 16%BUNNIES R US: $2k → 11%POUND BUDDIES: $2k → 15%SHELTER ANIMAL: $2k → 16%BUNNIES R US: $2k → 11%POUND BUDDIES: $2k → 15%PLEASANT HEARTS PET FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 11%BIG LAKE HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%PLEASANT HEARTS PET FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 11%C-SNIP: $2k → 15%PAY IT FORWARD ANIMAL OUTREACH: $2k → 15%RUFF RUCK CHALLENGE: $2k → 15%WEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER: $2k → 15%WEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER: $2k → 15%OPERATION SOLO: $2k → 15%NOAH PROJECT: $2k → 15%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 20 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$105k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+55%

Still filing today

40%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +103%
  • WM
    WEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOCUS ON FERALS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • LC
    L C RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +55%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
2
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
7
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
8
Purr-Fect Match Animal Rescue

Animal rescue

Animals
9
Columbus Pet Rescue

Rescue and adoption of animals

Animals
10
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
11
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
12
Paws of Muskingum County

The paws of muskingum county mission is to achieve a smaller, healthier pet population through affordable spay/neuter program

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paws Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Prostate Cancer 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

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 35 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF MUSKEGON: $12,547 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF MUSKEGONIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHELTER ANIMAL: $6,000 · OtherSHELTER ANIMALFERAL CAT SOLUTIONS: $5,650 · OtherFERAL CAT SOLUTIONSIndividual grant recipient: $4,151 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLEASANT HEARTS PET FOOD PANTRY: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS PITBULL ALLIANCE INC: $3,937 · OtherTYSON'S PLACE ANIMAL: $3,357 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,121 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $3,000 · Other+12 more: $20,390 · Other+12 moreHUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $6,070 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MU…VOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $5,996 · AnimalsVOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL…Cannonsville Critters: $5,669 · AnimalsCannonsville CrittersMISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 · AnimalsMISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETYCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA: $4,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PAWEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER: $4,000 · AnimalsWEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTERPAWS RESCUE: $3,888 · AnimalsPAWS RESCUEBESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER: $3,474 · AnimalsBESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE CENTERL C RESCUE: $2,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY CAT CREW CO: $2,000 · AnimalsNOAH PROJECT: $1,850 · AnimalsPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CAN…
Other$76,153Animals$42,947Philanthropy$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $6,070 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $5,996 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCannonsville Critters: $5,669 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPAWS RESCUE: $3,888 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER: $3,474 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetL C RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAT CREW CO: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNOAH PROJECT: $1,850 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL ↗
  • Who funds Cannonsville Critters ↗
  • Who funds MISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PAWS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds BESTPALS ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds L C RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CAT CREW CO ↗
  • Who funds NOAH PROJECT ↗

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.

Two Seven Oh IncBISSELL Pet FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Two Seven Oh IncMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Two Seven Oh Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Lebel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lebel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY20–25
    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.

    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 35 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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