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Thomas M Neal Foundation at a glance

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Thomas M Neal Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$134kAnimals$97kYouth Development$17kHuman Services$14kEducation$12kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$5kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,500
BIG CAT RESCUE$7,500
THE ROAR FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS TOWN$5,000
PAWS$3,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$3,500
WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$2,500
ST MARYS SCHOOL$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%BIG CAT RESCUE: $20k → 13%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%BIG CAT RESCUE: $15k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $8k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $8k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $7k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
SD
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$287k · 9 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$287k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $127k · revenue +169%
  • BC
    BIG CAT RESCUE CORP
    5× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +23%
  • RF
    ROAR FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $31k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • EO
    END OF LIFE LIBERTY PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • RA
    RTT ADVOCACY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • WW
    WILDLIFE WAYSTATION
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -86%
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
International Exotic Animal Sanctuary

Care for abused, abandoned and illegally obtained large cats and bears.

Animals
2
Seattle Area Feline Rescue Fka Animal Talk Rescue

Safe rescue saves feline lives by taking in homeless cats, giving them the care they need, finding them loving homes, and supporting their human companions. we do this because we believe each cat has inherent value and that humans and…

Animals
3
Carolina Tiger Rescue

Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.

Animals
4
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
6
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

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.

Animals
7
The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide a natural sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals
8
Performing Animal Welfare Society

Providing shelter and a permanent home for abused, abandoned and retired exotic animals.

Animals
9
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
10
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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11
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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12
Tiger Preservation Center Nevada

We are a non-breeding facility. Our mission is to rescue! We rescue and care for all the broken and mistreated animals that make their way to the Tiger Preservation Center of Nevada, and into our hearts.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Cat Rescue Corp; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPASSION & CHOICES: $126,800 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICESIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…PAWS: $16,500 · OtherPAWSEND OF LIFE LIBERTY PROJECT: $7,000 · OtherEND OF LIFE LIBERTY PROJ…RTT ADVOCACY FUND: $5,000 · OtherRTT ADVOCACY FUNDWOUNDED WARRIORS: $2,500 · Other+4 more: $4,000 · Other+4 moreBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $56,500 · Human ServicesBIG CAT RESCUE CORPFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $7,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesROAR FOUNDATION: $31,000 · AnimalsROAR FOUNDATIO…WILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $4,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WAYST…OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,500 · AnimalsOLD ENGLISH SH…THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMA…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationMARAT DAUKAYEV BALLET THEATRE INC: $5,050 · Arts & CultureTRUTH FOR LIFE: $3,000 · ReligionSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,500 · Health
Civil Rights$126,800Other$70,000Human Services$65,000Animals$40,000Education$9,500Arts & Culture$5,050Religion$3,000Health$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $126,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $56,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetROAR FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARAT DAUKAYEV BALLET THEATRE INC: $5,050 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTH FOR LIFE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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