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Whc 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$337kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$612k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Humane Network$23,312
Canine Rehab Center$20,000
Scoot to the Stars$11,701
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.

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($325k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($41k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Idaho Black Bear Rehab: $15k → 8%CANINE REHABILITATION CENTER & SANCTUARY: $37k → 10%PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $10k → 13%Goldens without Boarders: $10k → 13%Idaho Black Bear Rehab: $10k → 8%Canine Rehab Center: $25k → 10%IDAHO BLACK BEAR REHAB INC: $5k → 8%Canine Rehab Center: $20k → 10%Idaho Black Bear Rehab: $5k → 8%Canine Rehab Center: $19k → 10%Idaho Black Bear Rehab: $3k → 8%Canine Rehab Center: $12k → 10%Canine Rehab Center Sanctuary: $12k → 10%WILD HORSE SPIRIT: $5k → 10%Animal Ark: $10k → 10%Humane Network: $23k → 10%Humane Network: $10k → 10%Humane Network: $10k → 10%Humane Network: $10k → 10%Scoot to the Stars: $12k → 10%Scoot to the Stars: $8k → 10%WASHOE COUNTY K9 PARTNERS: $5k → 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.

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($41k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Australia$41k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 5 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$231k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+143%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • HN
    Humane Network
    4× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +27%
  • SA
    Shakespeare Animal Fund
    2× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +126%
  • IB
    IDAHO BLACK BEAR REHAB INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +304%

Funded once

  • CW
    CURRUMBIN WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $41k
  • CR
    Canine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuarygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $37k · revenue +173%
  • CR
    Canine Rehab Center Sanctuary
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
2
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
3
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
4
Working Dogs of Nevada Rescue

Our mission is to save, rehabilitate and rehome animals which may otherwise be euthanized at shelters due to their behavioural issues.

—
5
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
6
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
7
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
8
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
9
Raskels Rescue
Animals
10
My Happy Place Animal Sanctuary

My Happy Place Animal Sanctuary is a registered 501(c)3 non profit organization dedicated to providing rescue, rehabilitation and refuge to at-risk animals.

Animals
11
Barstow Humane Society

Animal Care for Barstow Area

—
12
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Nevada Wild Horses. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Humane Network: $53,312 · AnimalsHumane NetworkShakespeare Animal Fund: $45,000 · AnimalsShakespeare Animal FundCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary: $37,189 · AnimalsCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat SanctuaryIDAHO BLACK BEAR REHAB INC: $37,000 · AnimalsIDAHO BLACK BEAR REHAB INCFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · AnimalsAnimal Ark Incorporated: $10,000 · Animals+3 more: $14,987 · Animals+3 moreCanine Rehab Center: $76,167 · OtherCanine Rehab CenterCURRUMBIN WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $41,468 · OtherCURRUMBIN WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONScoot to the Stars: $20,000 · OtherScoot to the StarsCanine Rehab Center Sanctuary: $11,644 · OtherCanine Rehab Center SanctuaryIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient
Animals$207,488Other$159,279

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane Network: $53,312 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetShakespeare Animal Fund: $45,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary: $37,189 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetIDAHO BLACK BEAR REHAB INC: $37,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILD HORSE SPIRIT LTD: $4,595 over 1y, 9.3% 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× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Whc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Whc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Whc Foundation 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 14 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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