· Public charity
Ahimsa Foundation
To support organizations involved in the care and protection of animals and related activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $828,276 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $874,276 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,000 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 $10k27 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $491k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS | $80,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $60,000 |
| HOMECOMING FARM INC | $35,000 |
| CITY CRITTERS INC | $32,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION | $25,000 |
| EQUINE ADVOCATES INC | $25,000 |
| ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL | $19,000 |
| EQUINE RESCUE INC | $18,000 |
| HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA | $18,000 |
| WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $16,000 |
| IRONWOOD PIG SANCTUARY (THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION) | $16,000 |
| FLORIDA'S FORGOTTEN FELINES | $15,000 |
| FIXNATION INC | $15,000 |
| WILD BIRD FUND INC | $15,000 |
| THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your 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 +57% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue ×15- WRWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +59%
- EAEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- SISpay-Mart Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +52%
- IDIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALSone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -24%
- MSMUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUEone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
Animal rescue and housing
Animal Welfare
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
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.
Animal Rescue
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tcc Cat Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Primate Protection League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 110 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 MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY CRITTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rockin T Equine Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC ↗
- Who funds Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOSTER PARROTS LTD ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Passion 4 Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE PITS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds God's Creatures Great & Small Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Bobshouse 4Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACE OF HEARTS ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ELLEN M GIFFORD SHELTERING HOME CO ↗
- Who funds TCC CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREYHOUND FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Catnip of Gainesville ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A KITTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER RESCUE ↗
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: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Summerlee Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pedigree Foundation · Petco Love · BISSELL Pet Foundation · On Shore Foundation · Greater Good Charities
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 Ahimsa 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.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Adopt a Cat Foundation 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.
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