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The Pegasus Foundation

Through a strategy of engaging philanthropy, THE PEGASUS FOUNDATION serves as a catalyst to help non-profit organizations acheive their goals & potential by forming partnerships, leveraging resources and educating the public.THE PEGASUS FOUNDATION seeks to inspire collaboration by organizing confrences and meetings and facilitating…

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$74k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Animals$986kEnvironment$135kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $136,664 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,664 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
$30,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NALA'A NEW LIFE RESCUE$74,264
DARSHANS PET ORPHANS INC$30,200
MARITIME INFOMATION SYSTEM INC$20,000
CAREING FIELDS FELINES INC$12,200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DELAWARE CENTER FOR INLAND BAYS: $10k → 10%IFAW: $8k → 8%WELLFLEET BAY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $10k → 8%WILDAID INC: $20k → 10%NATIVE AMERICA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%NALA'S NEW LIFE RESCUE: $110k → 11%COMPASS FARMS INC: $22k → 17%HSUS: $10k → 14%NALA'S NEW LIFE RESCUE: $46k → 10%BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5k → 11%POPO PITBULLS INC: $21k → 13%DOGS AND CATS FOREVER: $152k → 13%HORSES WITHOUT HUMANS: $5k → 15%INDIAN RIVER COUNTRY: $5k → 12%THE WHALE SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%LAKE WINNUPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $8k → 8%WILDAID INC: $10k → 10%NATIVE AMERICA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%NALA'S NEW LIFE RESCUE: $86k → 11%PETTUS CROWE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%CAREING FIELDS FELINES INC: $16k → 10%PETS BROWARD INC: $6k → 11%POPO PITBULLS INC: $11k → 13%DOGS AND CATS FOREVER: $25k → 13%DARSHANS PET ORPHANS INC: $35k → 15%THE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC: $5k → 8%NALA'A NEW LIFE RESCUE: $74k → 11%CAREING FIELDS FELINES INC: $13k → 10%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%DARSHANS PET ORPHANS INC: $30k → 15%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $20k → 8%NALA'A NEW LIFE RESCUE: $68k → 11%CAREING FIELDS FELINES INC: $12k → 10%DOGS AND CATS FOREVER: $6k → 13%PROVINCETOWN CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $15k → 8%NALA'S NEW LIFE RESCUE: $54k → 11%CAREING FIELDS FELINES INC: $10k → 10%PROVINCETOWN CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $10k → 8%TREASURED LANDS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%PROVINCETOWN CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $10k → 8%HOSPICE OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $7k → 10%PROVINCETOWN CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $5k → 8%TREASURED COAST HOSPICE: $7k → 10%NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $6k → 8%MARITIME INFOMATION SYSTEM INC: $20k → 8%FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC COASTAL CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MT
MI
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
UT
KY
MD
DE
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$1.0M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+66%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentScience & TechArts & CultureSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NN
    Nalas New Life Rescue Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $438k · revenue +1% · 31% of their budget
  • DA
    DOGS AND CATS FOREVER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $205k · revenue +31%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +279%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • FO
    FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • LW
    Lake Winnipesaukee Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +251%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health
4
Orca Conservancy

Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.

Animals
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
World Vets

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…

Animals
7
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
8
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
9
Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Inc
Philanthropy
10
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
11
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
12
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pettus-Crowe Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%59%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nalas New Life Rescue Inc — $437,655 · AnimalsNalas New Life Rescue IncDOGS AND CATS FOREVER — $205,134 · AnimalsDOGS AND CATS FOREVERSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $42,600 · AnimalsSAVE THE CHIMPS INCWILDAID INC — $30,000 · Animals+11 more — $75,449 · Animals+11 morePET ORPHANS INC — $65,267 · OtherPET ORPHANS INCPOPO PITBULLS INC — $31,841 · OtherPOPO PITBULLS IN…TREASURED LANDS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherTREASURED LANDS …HOSPICE OF THE TREASURE COAST INC — $13,703 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE T…Lake Winnipesaukee Association — $10,000 · OtherLake Winnipesauk…PETTUS-CROWE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherPETTUS-CROWE FOU…+6 more — $16,455 · Other+6 moreCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR…NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL M…CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC — $12,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $12,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSE…THE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentCARING FIELDS FELINES INC — $50,800 · Social ScienceMARITIME TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INFORMATION SHARING & ANALYSIS CENTER — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Animals$790,838Other$167,266Environment$105,000Social Science$50,800Community Improvement$20,000Science & Tech$10,000Arts & Culture$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNalas New Life Rescue Inc — $437,655 over 6y, 31% of budgetDOGS AND CATS FOREVER — $205,134 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARING FIELDS FELINES INC — $50,800 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $42,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILDAID INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICA HUMANE SOCIEY — $20,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE TREASURE COAST INC — $13,703 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLake Winnipesaukee Association — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPETTUS-CROWE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPETS BROWARD INC — $5,905 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBusch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHorses Without Humans Rescue Organization — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $1,444 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKE USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Knopf Family Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
Knopf Family Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Knopf Family Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Pegasus 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
  • Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Dogs and Cats Forever — 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Pegasus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pegasus 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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