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William E Dean III Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$800k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Animals$1.4MHuman Services$290kHealth$150kEducation$55kArts & Culture$45kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$35kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 67 grants below total $635,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $800,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $165,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $600k
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Commit Foundation$10,000
Hope for Heroes Horsemanship Center$10,000
Humane Society of Jefferson County$10,000
Etosha Rescue & Adoption Center$10,000
Kansas City Pet Project$10,000
SUNY Cobleskill College Foundation$10,000
Humane Society of Greater Miami$10,000
Athens Area Humane Society$10,000
City Dogs & City Kitties Rescue$10,000
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge$10,000
Patient Airlift Services (PALS)$10,000
Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Riding Center$10,000
Dove Creek Equine Rescue$10,000
FIDO Pet Food Bank$10,000
C.A.R.E.$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $30k → 12%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 8%ZERO8HUNDRED: $10k → 11%WOUNDED HEROES FUND: $10k → 18%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $10k → 12%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $30k → 6%FENWICK FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10k → 8%SALUTE INC: $5k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$215k · 10 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
115

Total granted

$215k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthPublic BenefitEmploymentOther

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

  • HS
    HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA
    2× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +51%
  • MC
    MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER
    2× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +125%
  • IC
    INGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMA Animal Rescue Incorporatedgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +116%
  • AR
    ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +103%
  • CT
    CIRCLE TAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +37%

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
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
4
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
5
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

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
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
8
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
9
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
10
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
11
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
12
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsElementary Literacy Tutoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/136
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,668

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

135 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 135 of the 183 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/135
Grantees still filing
80/135
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated — $35,000 · Animals+82 more — $920,000 · Animals+82 moreHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA — $30,000 · Other+60 more — $737,000 · Other+60 moreCIRCLE TAIL INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE TAIL …KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE SER…Zero8Hundred Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesZero8Hundred…SALUTE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE INCFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE SUPPORT TEAMS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAISY FUND — $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS — $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesCanines for Service Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $10,000 · Human ServicesFENWICK FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC — $20,000 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationVETERANS WATCHMAKER INITIATIVE INC — $10,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INC — $10,000 · EducationSUNY COBLESKILL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationHEARTS & HORSES INC — $10,000 · HealthWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $10,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC — $10,000 · HealthUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $10,000 · HealthVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY — $10,000 · Public BenefitJerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County — $10,000 · Public BenefitThe Independence Fund Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitMILITARY NO STRESS PCS INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Public BenefitA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $5,000 · Public BenefitMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $25,000 · EmploymentCANDORFUL INC — $10,000 · Employment
Animals$955,000Other$767,000Human Services$245,000Education$100,000Health$50,000Public Benefit$40,000Employment$35,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMA Animal Rescue Incorporated — $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA — $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINSYNC EXOTIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetPROJECT ANIMALAID — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetZero8Hundred Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPUTNAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetALMOST HOME FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSALUTE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEREA'S ANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHeARTS SPEAK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE SUPPORT TEAMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHIHUAHUA RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANDORFUL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Petco LoveThe Duffield Family F…BISSELL Pet FoundationPetsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesThornton S Jr and Kat…Banfield FoundationThe American Society …Pedigree FoundationThe Summerlee Foundat…Best Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…
Petco LoveTX42.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Banfield Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Pedigree Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc

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 William E Dean III Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • People for Animals Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 183 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $897k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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