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Willard Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Willard Family Charitable 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.

$366k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$373kPhilanthropy$40k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$58,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$50
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA POLICE K9 FOUNDATION INC$100,000
NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC$100,000
PAWS4LIBERTY INC$58,000
EVERYPET$58,000
CAMDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE K-9 FUND$50,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PAWS4LIBERTY INC: $58k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $50k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $44k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $40k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $20k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $20k → 11%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 8 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.6M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NK
    NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $380k · revenue +24% · 27% of their budget
  • GP
    GEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $373k · revenue +89% · 27% of their budget
  • P4
    PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $232k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • FC
    First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue 0%
  • SP
    SERVICE PAWS OF CENTRAL PA
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -10%
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
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
2
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
3
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
4
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
5
Paws - Preservation of Animal Welfare & Safety Inc

The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…

Animals
6
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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7
4 Paws 4 Rescue

4 Paws 4 Rescue is an all foster home rescue. We are dedicated to saving animals that are in need, whether they be from high kill shelters, strays, abandoned animals, or owner surrenders. We strive to find suitable permanent homes for our…

Animals
8
Pats Pets Corporation

Animal rescue

Animals
9
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
10
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
11
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
12
Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc; the most unlike its peers is Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC: $372,980 · OtherGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INCCAMDEN COUNTY GEORGIA SHERIFF'S OFFICE K-9 UNIT: $332,903 · OtherCAMDEN COUNTY GEORGIA SHERIFF'S OFFICE K-9 UNITEVERYPET: $58,000 · OtherEVERYPETCAMDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE K-9 FUND: $50,000 · OtherCAMDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE K-9 FUNDNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC: $380,480 · AnimalsNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $124,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF CAMDEN COUNTY INCCATS ANGELS INC SPCA: $76,000 · AnimalsCATS ANGELS INC SPCAWWWPILOTSNPAWSORG INC: $73,500 · AnimalsWWWPILOTSNPAWSORG INCMission K9 Rescue Inc: $50,480 · AnimalsMission K9 Rescue IncFirst Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc: $33,500 · Animals+1 more: $12,860 · AnimalsPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $232,000 · Human ServicesPAWS 4 LIBERTY…CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$813,883Animals$750,820Human Services$232,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC: $380,480 over 7y, 27% of budgetGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC: $372,980 over 7y, 27% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $232,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $124,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCATS ANGELS INC SPCA: $76,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWWWPILOTSNPAWSORG INC: $73,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc: $50,480 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFirst Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc: $33,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Willard Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willard Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cats Angels Inc Spca: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–5%
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.
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How do I get to Willard Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Willard Family Charitable 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 13 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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