Skip to content
The Prentice Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Prentice Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Animals$1.0MFood & Nutrition$2k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $87k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP$37,000
ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER$30,000
PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK$20,000
ATASCOA ANIMAL ALLIES$6,000
HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $169k → 7%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS AREA INC: $6k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $36k → 10%SAVING SHELTER STRAYS INC: $5k → 12%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $37k → 16%KATIES'S ROADSIDE TENDED TREASURES: $6k → 16%HOUSTON SPCA: $100k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $29k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $30k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $30k → 16%ATASCOA ANIMAL ALLIES: $6k → 16%HOUSTON SPCA: $80k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $20k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $30k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $25k → 16%ATASCOA ANIMAL ALLIES: $5k → 16%HOUSTON SPCA: $65k → 16%HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $18k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $30k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $24k → 16%SAVING SHELTER STRAYS: $5k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $15k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $30k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $21k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $10k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $29k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $14k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $8k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $21k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $9k → 16%HILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $5k → 7%WAGGIN TAILZ RESUE AND ADOPTIONS: $6k → 10%DOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $7k → 16%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $20k → 7%ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $5k → 10%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $16k → 7%NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $6k → 10%WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION: $5k → 16%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $16k → 7%NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $6k → 10%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $11k → 7%NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $6k → 10%CRESSIE ANIMAL REFUGE AND ENRICHMENT: $5k → 16%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $11k → 7%NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $6k → 10%WAYWARD WHISKERS: $16k → 16%PACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $10k → 7%NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $5k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$1.0M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $187k · revenue +181%
  • ER
    ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +11%
  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +31% · 74% of their budget

Funded once

  • ER
    ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
  • CS
    CROCKER SPANIEL RESCUE OF EAST TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • PO
    PATH OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
2
West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals
3
Tennessee River Rescues

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

Animals
4
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
—
5
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
6
Sunnyside Street Dogs I

Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.

Animals
7
Chances - Dog Rescue and Relocation

Animal Rescue

—
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
10
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
11
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Animal League Spca Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $245,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSHILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC: $186,500 · AnimalsHILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INCETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER: $175,000 · AnimalsETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTERHOUSTON COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE: $30,000 · Animals+6 more: $39,500 · Animals+6 moreDOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUP: $168,500 · OtherDOMINION ANIMAL ADVOCATES GROUPHILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $87,000 · OtherHILL COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUEPACO'S RESCUE NETWORK: $84,000 · OtherPACO'S RESCUE NETWORKETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $36,000 · OtherETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTIONNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $34,000 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITIONIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · Other+7 more: $42,000 · Other+7 more
Animals$676,000Other$470,000

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 budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $245,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC: $186,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER: $175,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $34,000 over 6y, 74% of budgetHOUSTON COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE: $30,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetAtascosa Animal Allies Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NEW BRAUNFELS AREA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRYTAIL ENDINGS RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 Atascosa Animal Allies Inc ↗
  • 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 FAIRYTAIL ENDINGS RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Amy Shelton McNutt Ch…Faye L & William L Co…The Summerlee Foundat…Shell USA Company Fou…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
San Antonio Area FoundationTX17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Prentice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Prentice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    3report 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 23 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Prentice’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home