· Private foundation
William R Courtney and Valerie M Courtney 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homeless Empowerment Program | $10,000 |
| Center For Contemporary Sciences | $8,290 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,239 |
| The Humane League | $8,000 |
| White Coat Waste Project | $7,700 |
| Flatbush Cats | $6,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,181 |
| Friends of Strays Inc | $5,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $5,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $5,000 |
| Woodstock Farm Sanctuary | $5,000 |
| Little Wanderers NYC | $3,124 |
| Physicians Committee for Responsibl | $3,000 |
| Catstoria Cat Rescue Inc | $2,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTHE HUMANE LEAGUE4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +43%
- HEHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +83%
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $10k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +59%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
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…
Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O
There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA NUEVA ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH CATS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Strays Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FARM SANCTUARY CORP ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BEAR SANCTUARY 2280 STATE ROAD 31 PUNTA GORDA FL 33982 ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Express Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 R Courtney and Valerie M Courtney 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.