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The Sue Bassett Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sue Bassett Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Animals$485kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALH - WEST$50,000
HELPING OVERPOPULATION OF PETS END$25,000
CENTRAL FLORIDA ANIMAL RESERVE$20,000
SHELTERING HANDS INC$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
FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL$10,000
PAY TO SPAY INC$10,000
EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FL$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$10,000
COMPANION ANIMAL CARE OF BREVARD$8,000
BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY$5,480
RILEYS RESCUE OF BREVARD INC$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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WILD FLORIDA RESCUE CORP: $5k → 10%FOR THE LOVE OF PAWS: $5k → 12%CENTRAL FLORIDA ANIMAL RESERVE: $20k → 13%SHELTERING HANDS INC: $20k → 16%PAY TO SPAY INC: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALH - WEST: $50k → 11%CHAPPY & FRIENDS: $12k → 7%RILEYS RESCUE OF BREVARD INC: $5k → 10%BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 10%EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $200k → 10%EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FL: $10k → 10%EAST COSTAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 10%MATILDA'S PET SANCTUARY INC: $15k → 10%FIVE FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $18k → 10%SPCA OF NORTH BREVARD INC: $6k → 10%SPCA OF NORTH BREVARD INC: $3k → 10%HELPING OVERPOPULATION OF PETS END: $25k → 10%WILD FLORIDA RESCUE CORP: $20k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $10k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $10k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $10k → 10%COMPANION ANIMAL CARE OF BREVARD: $8k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $6k → 10%TOUCH OF GREY RESCUE INC: $5k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $5k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $5k → 10%FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $5k → 10%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 4 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$324k
$8k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsHealthOther
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

  • EC
    EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue +53%
  • FW
    FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &
    7× · 2017–2023 · $51k
  • WF
    Wild Florida Rescue Corp
    2× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • EC
    EAST COSTAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
2
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
3
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
4
For Every Rescue a Life Saved

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.

Animals
5
Sirens Cove Animal Rescue Inc

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.

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6
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
7
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

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.

Animals
8
Community Pet Rescue

Caring for strays through pure fundraising

Animals
9
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
10
Carolina Animal Network

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…

Animals
11
Fluff Buddies

Feline rescue & adoption

Animals
12
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Over Population of Pet; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $240,000 · AnimalsEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INCWild Florida Rescue Corp: $25,000 · AnimalsWild Florida Rescue CorpHELPING OVER POPULATION OF PET: $25,000 · AnimalsHELPING OVER POPULATION OF PETSHELTERING HANDS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsCentral Florida Animal Reserve Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsFIVE FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 · Animals+6 more: $50,357 · Animals+6 moreFLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &: $51,000 · OtherFLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL &UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALH - WEST: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALH …MATILDAS PET SANCTUARY: $15,000 · OtherMATILDAS PET SANCTUARYEAST COSTAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 · OtherEAST COSTAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIET…COMPANION ANIMAL CARE OF BREVARD: $8,000 · OtherCOMPANION ANIMAL CARE OF BREV…BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,480 · OtherFOR THE LOVE OF PAWS: $5,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health
Animals$397,857Other$142,480Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $240,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWild Florida Rescue Corp: $25,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSHELTERING HANDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFIVE FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHAPPY & FRIENDS: $12,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFix Them All: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL & SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPCA of North Brevard Inc: $8,357 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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.

Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC11× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
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.
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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.

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 20 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.

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