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Ahimsa Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Ahimsa Foundation

To support organizations involved in the care and protection of animals and related activities.

$972k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$6.8M
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $912,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $971,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $686k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$12,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS$100,000
HOMECOMING FARM INC$30,000
CITY CRITTERS INC$30,000
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER$30,000
EQUINE ADVOCATES INC$25,000
WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION$25,000
HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA$21,000
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL$21,000
WILD BIRD FUND INC$20,000
EQUINE RESCUE INC$19,000
THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION DBA IRONWOOD PIG SANCTUARY$18,000
JUNGLE FRIENDS PRIMATE SANCTUARY$18,000
WILDLIFE ALLIANCE$17,000
FOSTER PARROTS LTD$15,000
WOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $60k → 7%HOMECOMING FARM INC: $90k → 8%THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $35k → 12%VSPCA USA: $25k → 10%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $25k → 11%WILDLIFE ALLIANCE: $20k → 17%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $35k → 7%FOSTER PARROTS LTD: $20k → 7%ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: $43k → 23%ROCKIN' T EQUINE RESCUE: $30k → 13%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $48k → 7%HOMECOMING FARM INC: $35k → 8%THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $20k → 12%VSPCA USA: $20k → 10%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $25k → 11%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $34k → 7%ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: $21k → 23%ROCKIN' T EQUINE RESCUE: $25k → 13%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $45k → 7%HOMECOMING FARM INC: $30k → 8%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $25k → 11%WILDLIFE RESUE & REHABILITATION INC: $25k → 7%ROCKIN' T EQUINE RESCUE: $25k → 13%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $35k → 7%HOMECOMING FARM INC: $30k → 8%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $25k → 11%WILDLIFE RESUE & REHABILITATION INC: $25k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $35k → 7%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $24k → 11%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $25k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $30k → 7%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $25k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $30k → 7%WILDLIFE RESUE & REHABILITATION INC: $25k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $30k → 7%WILDLIFE RESUE & REHABILITATION INC: $25k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $30k → 7%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $25k → 7%CITY CRITTERS INC: $38k → 17%HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA: $21k → 19%CITY CRITTERS PO BOX 1345: $37k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $32k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $30k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $30k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $30k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $30k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $30k → 17%CITY CRITTERS INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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RI
CA
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DC
OK
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 94 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
16

Total granted

$7.6M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue ×15
  • WR
    WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +59%
  • EA
    EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • RT
    RETURN TO FREEDOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • SI
    Spay-Mart Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • ID
    IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -24%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
3
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
4
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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5
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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6
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
7
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
8
Tennessee River Rescues

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

Animals
9
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

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…

Animals
11
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tcc Cat Rescue Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 113 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/100
Grantees still filing
73/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $740,000 · AnimalsMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALSNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $349,500 · AnimalsCITY CRITTERS INC: $281,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $244,000 · Animals+86 more: $5,101,568 · Animals+86 moreHOMECOMING FARM INC: $237,500 · OtherHOMECOMING FA…VISAKHA SPCA INDIA INC: $128,000 · OtherVISAKHA SPCA …Passion 4 Paws Inc: $97,000 · OtherPassion 4 Paw…God's Creatures Great & Small Rescue Mission Inc: $81,000 · OtherGod's Creatur…OUABACHE VALLEY FELINES AND FRIENDS INC: $57,500 · OtherOUABACHE VALL…HEART AND HAND SOCIETY INC HEART AND HAND SOCIETY INC: $49,000 · OtherHEART AND HAN…PHOENIX RISING RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INCORPORATED: $42,000 · OtherMINDY'S MEMORY PRIMATE SANCTUARY: $35,000 · Other+13 more: $158,000 · Other+13 moreNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$6,716,568Other$885,000Arts & Culture$83,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $740,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $349,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCITY CRITTERS INC: $281,500 over 9y, 19% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $244,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $189,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $165,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetRockin T Equine Rescue: $158,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetHORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC: $156,000 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetEQUINE RESCUE INC: $151,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $146,497 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $138,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $135,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetFLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC: $133,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetFixNation Inc: $121,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFOSTER PARROTS LTD: $117,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: $115,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $107,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetSANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE: $98,221 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetOUT OF THE PITS INC: $98,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetPassion 4 Paws Inc: $97,000 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $96,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetHULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $94,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetOklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc: $93,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetACE OF HEARTS: $92,500 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetBobshouse 4Dogs Inc: $92,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY: $90,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetELLEN M GIFFORD SHELTERING HOME CO: $89,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $88,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $88,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $83,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE: $82,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetOperation Catnip of Gainesville: $81,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGod's Creatures Great & Small Rescue Mission Inc: $81,000 over 7y, 45% of budgetTCC CAT RESCUE INC: $81,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $76,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSAVE A KITTY INC: $75,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetGREYHOUND FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY INC: $70,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $70,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT RIVER RESCUE: $69,500 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBEYOND NINE CAT RESCUE INC: $67,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetCat Assistance Referral & Education (CARE): $67,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $64,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $64,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API: $61,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSPAY AND STAY: $57,750 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetURBAN CAT LEAGUE INC: $57,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $56,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT PERRY INC: $56,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Rockin T Equine Rescue ↗
  • 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 Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC ↗
  • 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 OUT OF THE PITS INC ↗
  • Who funds Passion 4 Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
  • Who funds HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACE OF HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds Bobshouse 4Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELLEN M GIFFORD SHELTERING HOME CO ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Operation Catnip of Gainesville ↗
  • Who funds God's Creatures Great & Small Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds TCC CAT RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A KITTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREYHOUND FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lost Our Home Pet Foundation ↗

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.

Leslie L Alexander Fo…The Summerlee Foundat…Humane World for Anim…The American Society …Petsmart Charities IncThornton S Jr and Kat…The Duffield Family F…Pedigree FoundationPetco LoveBISSELL Pet FoundationOn Shore FoundationGreater Good Charities
Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ahimsa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahimsa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ahimsa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ahimsa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 113 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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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