How do I find funders for a grassroots animals nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on grassroots animals organizations, currently The Dozier Family Foundation Inc, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, The Goldring Family Foundationinc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

What counts as a grassroots organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.

How much grant money goes to grassroots animals organizations?

$2.7B reached 14,741 grassroots animals organizations from 15,797 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Causes · Animals · grassroots

Who funds grassroots animals organizations

The funders that back grassroots animals organizations are specialists, not generalists: The Dozier Family Foundation Inc gives them 179.7× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small animals nonprofit's time.

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The short version

15,797 funders gave $2.7B to 14,741 grassroots animals organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is The Dozier Family Foundation Inc, giving 179.7× the national rate to grassroots animals organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Petsmart Charities Inc, at $70M.
The grassroots animals organization drawing the most is Pet Network Humane Society, at $18M.

Funders most focused on grassroots animals organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

The Dozier Family Foundation Inc179.7×$6M · 100% of its giving Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance170.9×$18M · 71% of its giving The Goldring Family Foundationinc132.2×$3M · 100% of its giving National Anti-Vivisection Society130.6×$3M · 88% of its giving The Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation123.8×$4M · 67% of its giving Wings of Rescue Inc118.8×$2M · 93% of its giving James D Azzar Foundation Inc116.8×$2M · 100% of its giving The Diane S and P Tram Sessions Jr Foundation Inc114×$2M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to grassroots animals organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1Petsmart Charities Inc$70M 2Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc$45M 3The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$19M 4Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance$18M 5Best Friends Animal Society$14M 6Humane World for Animals Inc$13M 7Petco Love$12M 8The Annenberg Foundation$11M

Grassroots animals organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

14,731 other grassroots animals organizations$2.6B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a grassroots animals nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on grassroots animals organizations, currently The Dozier Family Foundation Inc, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, The Goldring Family Foundationinc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a grassroots organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
How much grant money goes to grassroots animals organizations?: $2.7B reached 14,741 grassroots animals organizations from 15,797 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

Size is median total revenue; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.