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Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund at a glance

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Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
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 2024.

Animals$225kEnvironment$6kScience & Tech$500
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$258k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION$12,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $2k → 10%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 17%PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE: $2k → 13%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED ST: $2k → 14%NASSAU FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 7%PAW WARRIORS: $2k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $500 → 12%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%TROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $3k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $5k → 25%FRIENDS FOR LIFE FOREVER FARM: $10k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $1k → 10%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED ST: $1k → 14%NASSAU FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 7%PAW WARRIORS: $1k → 12%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $79k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $4k → 25%FRIENDS FOR LIFE FOREVER FARM: $7k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $500 → 10%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED ST: $1k → 14%PAW WARRIORS INC: $1k → 12%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $12k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $4k → 25%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED ST: $1k → 14%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $12k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $2k → 25%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $11k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $2k → 25%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $9k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $2k → 25%THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $6k → 15%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $2k → 25%SPCA INTERNATIONAL: $750 → 17%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $5k → 15%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $5k → 15%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

NY
IN
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 13 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$218k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+33%

Still filing today

62%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • PH
    PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +375%
  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +164%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TA
    TROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +11%
  • PV
    Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +114%
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
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
4
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
10
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
11
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
12
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Runaways Animal Rescue. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
16/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $139,725 · AnimalsPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INCCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $20,650 · AnimalsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation IncTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $8,000 · Animals+8 more: $18,420 · Animals+8 moreFRIENDS FOR LIFE FOREVER FARM: $16,500 · OtherFRIENDS FOR LIFE FOR…THE TURTLE HOSPITAL: $11,000 · OtherTHE TURTLE HOSPITALNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOC…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVAN…+6 more: $2,450 · Other+6 moreTROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $350 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 · EnvironmentNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $500 · Education
Animals$186,795Other$40,950Environment$3,100Education$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 budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $139,725 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $20,650 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,720 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRunaways Animal Rescue: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $200 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.

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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 Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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    How do I get to Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Vera Kunsak Charitable Trust Fund 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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