· Private foundation
The Prentice 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON SPCA | $80,000 |
| ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER | $30,000 |
| DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP | $25,000 |
| PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK | $16,000 |
| HOUSTON COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ATASCOA ANIMAL ALLIES | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
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
- HCHILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $187k · revenue +181%
- ERETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +11%
- NBNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +31% · 74% of their budget
Funded once
- ERETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTIONone grant, 2017 · $36k
- POPATH OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CSCROCKER SPANIEL RESCUE OF EAST TEXASone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.
Animal Rescue
Animal shelter and rescue
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare
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.
Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Animal League Spca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atascosa Animal Allies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAVING SHELTER STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NEW BRAUNFELS AREA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Atascosa Animal Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRYTAIL ENDINGS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Prentice 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.