· Public charity
The Westminster Kennel Club
THE WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB ("wkc") was established to increase interest in dogs, improve breeds and hold annual dog show in new york city.
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.
The 5 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOT ONE MORE VET | $20,000 |
| VALOR SERVICE DOGS | $20,000 |
| UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER | $10,000 |
| LA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE | $10,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Trustees of Tufts College3× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +36%
Cornell University3× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +49%- TUTuskegee University3× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +67%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TAThe AKC Humane Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +172%
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.
American kennel club companion animal recovery (akc car)'s mission is to promote identification of pets and reunite lost pets with their owners. akc car also supports animal relief and recovery efforts during natural or civil disasters,…
Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…
The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…
Tufts SAVMA is the Tufts Student Chapter
The american college of veterinary radiology (acvr) is a member-driven, not-for-profit organization consisting of over 800 accredited veterinary radiologists and radiation oncologists. the college was founded in 1961 by veterinarians…
To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. perform unbiased independent nutrition research and…
Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rescue & Welfare Trust Fund of the Btca. 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 33 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog ↗
- Who funds American Kennel Club Inc ↗
- Who funds TAKE THE LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MIGHTYVET ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds NOT ONE MORE VET INC ↗
- Who funds VALOR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds The AKC Humane Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KRUISIN KANINES OF PERKASIE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRUSSELS GRIFFON RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE & WELFARE TRUST FUND OF THE BTCA ↗
- Who funds NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER CLUB USA 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Westminster Kennel Club 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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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