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Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,800
Largest grant, FY2021
$3,600
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$13k67%
FY20204$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Animals$22kSocial Science$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Luv-A-Bull Pit Bull Rescue$7,69021%
A Woof Over My Head Dog Rescue$3,0001n/a
A Purposeful Rescue Inc$3,00020%
Underdogs Rock Rescue$2,80013%
Underdog Railroad$2,0291n/a
Pacific Animal Society$2,0001n/a
Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team$1,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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.

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About Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary

How much does Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary give?
Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary reported 6 grants totaling $13,400 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Animals (56%), Social Science (44%).
Who are Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Luv-A-Bull Pit Bull Rescue ($8k), A Woof Over My Head Dog Rescue ($3k), A Purposeful Rescue Inc ($3k).
Does Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary based?
Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary is based in CA.

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 8 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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