· Private foundation
The Sue Bassett Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALH - WEST | $50,000 |
| HELPING OVERPOPULATION OF PETS END | $25,000 |
| SHELTERING HANDS INC | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL FLORIDA ANIMAL RESERVE | $20,000 |
| WILD FLORIDA RESCUE CORP | $20,000 |
| FIVE FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $17,500 |
| MATILDA'S PET SANCTUARY INC | $15,000 |
| CHAPPY & FRIENDS | $12,000 |
| EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FL | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAY TO SPAY INC | $10,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL CARE OF BREVARD | $8,000 |
| BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,480 |
| RILEYS RESCUE OF BREVARD INC | $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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
- ECEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC5× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue +53%
- FWFLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &7× · 2017–2023 · $51k
- WFWild Florida Rescue Corp2× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- ECEAST COSTAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
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.
To manage feral and stray cat populations. The process involves trapping the cats in a humane manner, getting them spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and then returning them to their original location.
Reduce the number of stray cats in South Florida by educating the public through social media, community events, & perform TNR services (Trap, Neuter, & Release)for stray cats. We also rescue injured cats, foster them until homes are found.
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
Caring for strays through pure fundraising
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
Feline rescue & adoption
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Over Population of Pet and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Florida Rescue Corp ↗
- Who funds HELPING OVER POPULATION OF PET ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Animal Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHAPPY & FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fix Them All ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA of North Brevard Inc ↗
- Who funds Touch of Grey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Riley's Rescue of Brevard 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: Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sue Bassett Foundation Inc 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.
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Sue Bassett Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Sue Bassett Foundation Inc 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.