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Two Seven Oh Inc

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.

$705k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Animals$4.1MCrime & Legal$25kHealth$1kEducation$77
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $572k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALKASKA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL$36,641
BENZIE COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL$32,074
NORTHWOODS ANIMAL SHELTER$31,000
CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
MICHIGAN ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK$25,000
KENT COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL$23,290
MANISTEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$23,200
NEWAYGO COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$20,000
NEW BEGININGS ANIMAL RESCUE$20,000
FRIENDS FOR THE ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT$20,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL$20,000
CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
ANTRIM COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL$19,667
CLARE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$18,865
WISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE$18,212
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVINGSTON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $27k → 5%CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 7%HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 8%BARRY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $30k → 9%CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND COUNTY: $30k → 9%WISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%BENZIE COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $32k → 10%KENT COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $28k → 11%CHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $39k → 12%IONIA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $26k → 12%KALAMAZOO HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%KALKASKA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $37k → 12%EVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER: $27k → 13%NORTHWOODS ANIMAL SHELTER: $31k → 13%MANISTEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $23k → 13%NEWAYGO COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $20k → 13%ARENAC COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $40k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY: $20k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY AND ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON: $44k → 15%MONTCALM COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $23k → 15%ROSCOMMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $42k → 16%ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER: $20k → 16%SAGINAW COUNTY ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL: $29k → 18%CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $30k → 7%OAKLAND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $34k → 8%BARRY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $26k → 9%KENT COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $23k → 11%CHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $32k → 12%KALKASKA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $33k → 12%JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $35k → 13%ARENAC COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $26k → 14%CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $22k → 7%OAKLAND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $30k → 8%BARRY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $25k → 9%CHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $30k → 12%KALKASKA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $27k → 12%CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $22k → 7%CHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $24k → 12%JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $33k → 13%SANILAC COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $31k → 14%MACOMB COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $37k → 10%DETROIT ANIMAL CONTROL: $42k → 21%BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP ANIMAL CONTROL: $23k → 21%BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP ANIMAL SHELTER: $37k → 8%BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP ANIMAL SHELTER: $30k → 8%DOWNRIVER CENTRAL ANIMAL CONTROL: $66k → 21%GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $61k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 92 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

92 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
18

Total granted

$4.0M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+53%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • CH
    CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $152k · revenue +347%
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $101k · revenue +45%
  • MA
    MICHIGAN ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $42k
  • HH
    HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +47%
  • AH
    AL-VAN HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +178%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Marion County Humane Society

The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…

Animals
2
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
3
Mineral County Humane Society Inc

rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes

Animals
4
Humane Society of Monroe County Il

The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.

Animals
5
Humane Society of Ottawa County

We are dedicated to providing education and services to ottawa county and beyond, to enforce animal cruelty laws, and help turn the many homeless pets at our shelter into loving family members in "furever" homes.

Animals
6
Animal House of South East Michigan

We have been created to provide a number of humane companion animal related services to the community such as: 1) operate an animal rescue providing a haven for homeless animals 2) work to place those animals into homes 3) attempt to keep…

Animals
7
Humane Society of Waupaca County Inc

The Humane Society of Waupaca County (HSWC) provides the following services for the citizens of Waupaca County and the surrounding area. HSWC provides shelter, veterinary care, spaying and neutering and adoption services for homeless pets.

Animals
8
Van Wert County Humane Society Inc

The van wert county humane society is committed to building a community of responsible pet owners and ending animal cruelty; to offering a safe haven for animals in need; and to attempt through all reasonable avenues to return animals to…

Animals
9
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
10
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
11
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society & Animal Rescue of Muskegon County and the most unlike its peers is Help From My Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr18%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
12%
6,510/53,787

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.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 111 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOWNRIVER CENTRAL ANIMAL CONTROL — $119,760 · OtherDOWNRIVER CENTRAL ANIMAL CONTROLBARRY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER — $106,979 · OtherKALKASKA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — $97,041 · OtherARENAC COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — $97,004 · OtherKENT COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — $86,894 · OtherBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP ANIMAL SHELTER — $78,434 · OtherBENZIE COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — $73,772 · Other+46 more — $1,511,670 · Other+46 moreCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $151,805 · AnimalsCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETYCHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOC — $146,335 · AnimalsCHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $100,547 · AnimalsMICHIGAN ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK INC — $73,297 · AnimalsEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER — $66,923 · AnimalsManistee County Humane Society — $66,479 · AnimalsGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY — $65,515 · Animals+51 more — $1,273,112 · Animals+51 more
Other$2,171,554Animals$1,944,013

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $151,805 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOC — $146,335 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $100,547 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK INC — $73,297 over 6y, 13% of budgetEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER — $66,923 over 6y, 15% of budgetManistee County Humane Society — $66,479 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY — $65,515 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY — $64,176 over 2y, 11% of budgetDELTA ANIMAL SHELTER — $56,337 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $56,176 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER — $53,173 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetSHELTER TO HOME — $52,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL — $52,342 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE — $50,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY INC — $48,531 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetWISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE — $48,209 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetOGEMAW COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $45,428 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC — $45,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSANILAC COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $43,971 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCHARLEVOIX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $41,269 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHWOODS ANIMAL SHELTER — $40,895 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetNOAH PROJECT — $40,271 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHumane Society of Midland County — $40,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAGINAW COUNTY INCORPORATED — $36,672 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $33,180 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetEATON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNBS ANIMAL RESCUE — $29,820 over 6y, 19% of budgetMISSAUKEE HUMANE SOCIETY — $28,875 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $25,769 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCannonsville Critters — $23,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetALL SPECIES KINSHIP — $22,420 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAL-VAN HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $19,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetONTONAGON COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION — $17,606 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,347 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBranch Area Rescue Coalition — $16,988 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetHAPPY HEARTS FELINE SANCTUARY — $15,630 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetST CLAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $14,479 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN — $13,480 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHELP FROM MY FRIENDS INC — $10,994 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MICHIGAN ANIMALS RESCUE — $8,880 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetIOSCO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,030 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHELP ORPHANED PETS EVERYWHERE — $7,498 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,474 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $6,650 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI — $6,533 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS OF MICHIGAN — $6,000 over 3y, 28% of budget
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 CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds CHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOC
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds EVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER
  • Who funds Manistee County Humane Society
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY
  • Who funds DELTA ANIMAL SHELTER
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT
  • Who funds ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER
  • Who funds SHELTER TO HOME
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY INC
  • Who funds WISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds OGEMAW COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY

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.

BISSELL Pet FoundationMI55.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Lebel Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Harvey Memorial 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 Two Seven Oh 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Two Seven Oh Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Two Seven Oh 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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