· Private foundation
The Onyx and Breezy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Various Transactions - Detail on Fi | $59,684 |
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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +73% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- POPAWS OF WAR INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +73%
- PIPeace4Paws Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +88%
- PWPAW WARRIORS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- EAEAGLE AIR TRANSPORT INCone grant, 2017 · $17k
- K4Kinder 4 Rescuegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +296%
- LDLT DENNIS W ZILINSKI II MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -13%
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.
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need
Cat care and cat adoption - intake homeless owner surrendered cats provide them with veterinary care feed and house them until adopted
Cat Rescue
Rescue and rehome abandoned cats and kittens.
Rescue and shelter cats
to rescue animals in need of veterinary care and to spay and neuter
Animal rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paw Warriors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lt Dennis W Zilinski Ii Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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.
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds Peace4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds Kinder 4 Rescue ↗
- Who funds LT DENNIS W ZILINSKI II MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RANDOLPH ANIMAL POUND ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds A PATHWAY TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Triple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds MEOW VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Pet Adoption League Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND CAT ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON FERALS INC ↗
- Who funds T-TOWN TNR INC ↗
- Who funds PAULS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SUWANNEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Petsmart Charities Inc · Carol and Kent H Landsberg Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · 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 Onyx and Breezy 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.
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.