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Wildcat Cove Foundation

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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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 FY20202024.

Philanthropy$226kArts & Culture$83kAnimals$18kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCS$25,000
WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY C$11,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY LEAGUE$5,348
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SF OPERA$5,000
PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE$4,500
CARLETON COLLEGE$2,600
FLORIDA CRAFTART$2,500
THE STUART SOCIETY$2,500
AUDUBON$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$313k · 13 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$313k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-6%

Still filing today

46%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • PO
    PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • SW
    South Wood County Humane Society Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -61%
  • PB
    PATRICK BRETT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -50%
  • CV
    Cachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -6%

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
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
2
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
3
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
4
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
5
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
6
Council for Watershed Health

Council for watershed health advances the health and sustainability of the region's watersheds, rivers, streams, and habitats - in both natural areas and urban neighborhoods - through science-based research, education, and inclusive…

Environment
7
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
8
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
9
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc

To provide technical information and scientific research to the forest products industry needed to achieve environmental goals and principles.

10
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
11
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
12
California Trout Inc

Caltrout's mission is ensuring healthy water and resilient wild fish for a better california. we share a common vision of a california where healthy waters flow from headwaters to sea. where the diversity and resilience of our waters and…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCS — $142,000 · OtherARCSWENDER WEIS FOUNDATION — $64,000 · OtherWENDER WEIS FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY LEAGUE — $34,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY LEAGUESF OPERA — $28,000 · OtherSF OPERACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY C — $13,000 · Other+16 more — $44,350 · Other+16 morePEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $9,500 · AnimalsSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $225 · AnimalsCARLETON COLLEGE — $3,600 · EducationSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,000 · EducationCachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc — $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMONTEREY AUDUBON SOCIETY — $1,000 · EnvironmentCarmel River Steelhead Association — $1,000 · EnvironmentCalifornia Native Plant Society — $210 · EnvironmentFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $1,000 · Human ServicesHeyday — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$325,350Animals$14,725Education$4,600Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Environment$2,210Human Services$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida CraftArt Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPATRICK BRETT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMONTEREY AUDUBON SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeyday — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society — $210 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
  • Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE
  • Who funds Florida CraftArt Inc
  • Who funds South Wood County Humane Society Inc
  • Who funds PATRICK BRETT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE
  • Who funds Cachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc
  • Who funds MONTEREY AUDUBON SOCIETY
  • Who funds Carmel River Steelhead Association
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS
  • Who funds Heyday
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds California Native Plant Society
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Wildcat Cove Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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, 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.

    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 32 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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