· Private foundation
The Rachael Ray Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $706k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+15 grants · $8.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA | $2,100,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $1,300,000 |
| ASPCA | $1,300,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $400,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $375,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $350,000 |
| CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE | $350,000 |
| DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $325,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $320,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $300,000 |
| FOODCORPS INC | $300,000 |
| NRAEF | $300,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $300,000 |
| EMANCIPET | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +18%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +31%- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +80%
Funded once
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue +28%- RORESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -29%
- NDNO DOGS LEFT BEHIND INCone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue -34%
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 compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Established in 1974, the organization's mission is to find responsible homes for dogs and cats and to encourage all dog and cat owners to spay and neuter their pets.
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
Aaf is a no kill shelter for domestic animals that have been abused and abandoned. aaf provides and coordinates adoption, spay/nueter, and educational programs, which aim to reduce and control pet population. aaf maintains temporary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Ronald E Franklin 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
177 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. 177 of the 208 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BAD RAP ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHIMPS ↗
- Who funds THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY MUTTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
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: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Yum-O Organization Inc · Banfield Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization
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 Rachael Ray 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.
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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