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Alley Cat Allies Inc

To transform and develop communities to protect and improve the lives of cats.

$422k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$3.7MHealth$25k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $330k
$12,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Humane Society of AC$210,000
Diamond Veterinary Hospital$120,000
Alliance for ContraceptionACC&D$25,000
Operation Kindness$22,125
Jasper Animal Rescue Mission$12,000
Summer Spay Neuter Alliance$10,805
New Leash on Life$9,986
PAWS PLUS VETERINARY CLINIC$6,000
Friends 2 Ferals$6,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FIELDHAVEN FELINE CENTER: $70k → 6%FORGOTTEN FELINES OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20k → 9%RAINBOW FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25k → 15%LOLLYPOP FARM THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF: $39k → 14%OPERATION KINDNESS: $25k → 14%FRIENDS FOR LIFE ANIMAL SHELTER: $33k → 16%ANOTHER CHANCE RESCUE GROUP: $40k → 17%JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $22k → 14%PENSACOLA HUMANE SOCIETY: $28k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR CONTRACEPTION IN CATS: $35k → 14%GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 15%ANIMAL BALANCE: $162k → 11%PIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $378k → 9%Humane Society of AC: $210k → 11%HUMANE NETWORK: $123k → 10%CATNIP FOUNDATION AT BIG SKY RANCH: $75k → 11%Diamond Veterinary Hospital: $120k → 8%FIELDHAVEN FELINE CENTER: $15k → 6%RAINBOW FRIENDS SANCTUARY: $20k → 15%MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS: $100k → 17%Operation Kindness: $22k → 14%ANOTHER CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $22k → 17%OPERATION SPAY BAY: $33k → 12%JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $17k → 14%TLC PETSNIP INC: $34k → 16%Alliance for ContraceptionACC&D: $25k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR CONTRACEPTION IN CATS & DOGS: $20k → 12%ANIMAL BALANCE: $103k → 11%PIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $154k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF AC: $178k → 11%HUMANE NETWORK: $40k → 10%CATNIP FOUNDATION AT BIG SKY RANCH: $75k → 11%DIAMOND VETERINARY HOSPITAL: $75k → 8%RAINBOW FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20k → 15%MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS: $25k → 17%FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES: $20k → 14%TLC PETSNIP: $25k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR CONTRACEPTION IN CATS: $25k → 14%ANIMAL BALANCE: $40k → 11%PIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $152k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF AC: $115k → 11%HUMANE NETWORK: $36k → 10%CATNIP FOUNDATION AT BIG SKY RANCH: $23k → 11%DIAMOND VETERINARY HOSPITAL: $25k → 8%PIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF AC: $50k → 11%HUMANE NETWORK: $22k → 10%CATNIP FOUNDATION AT BIG SKY RANCH: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 60% of Alley Cat Allies Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Alley Cat Allies Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 24 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
25

Total granted

$3.5M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+16%

Still filing today

88%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $563k · revenue +3%
  • AB
    ANIMAL BALANCE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $304k · revenue +442% · 40% of their budget
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $229k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPERATION SPAY BAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +187%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +42%

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

04Your field

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.

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Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
2
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion
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
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
6
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
7
Operation Pawpulation

The mission of Operation Pawpulation is to offer support and resources, including low-cost and no-cost spay/neuter, vaccinations and microchips in order to save lives by reducing the number of homeless pets in our community. Spaying and…

Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
9
Unos Home for Wayward Cats and Dogs

Animal rescue organization

Animals
10
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
11
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.

Animals
12
Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab Inc

To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill Humane Society Spca and the most unlike its peers is Ziggys Refuge. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY — $563,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTYHumane World for Animals Inc — $228,510 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES — $223,000 · AnimalsCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARESAlliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs — $155,000 · AnimalsAlliance for Contraception in Cats & DogsThe Paw Project — $150,000 · AnimalsThe Paw ProjectMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC — $125,000 · AnimalsMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INCHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $96,185 · AnimalsFieldHaven Feline Center — $85,000 · Animals+33 more — $674,150 · Animals+33 morePIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $704,625 · OtherPIGS ANIMAL SANCTUARYANIMAL BALANCE — $304,361 · OtherANIMAL BALANCEDiamond Veterinary Hospital — $220,000 · OtherDiamond Veterinary HospitalREIDSVILLE PH CHURCH — $135,000 · OtherREIDSVILLE PH CHURCH+7 more — $67,220 · OtherFYIMS INC — $37,500 · Youth Development
Animals$2,299,845Other$1,431,206Youth Development$37,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY — $563,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE — $304,361 over 2y, 40% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $228,510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES — $223,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAlliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs — $155,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetThe Paw Project — $150,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC — $125,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $96,185 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFieldHaven Feline Center — $85,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetRAINBOW FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $65,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $62,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetTLC PETSNIP INC — $58,600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $47,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $46,253 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $45,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA FL INC — $37,819 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFYIMS INC — $37,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOPERATION SPAY BAY INC — $32,708 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetZIGGYS REFUGE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetForgotten Felines of Sonoma County — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE ASSOC OF WILSON COUNTY — $16,701 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALLEY CAT ADVOCATES INC — $13,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJasper Animal Rescue Mission — $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMaryland Horse Rescue — $12,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSUMNER SPAY NEUTER ALLIANCE — $10,805 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATS GLOBAL — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS-ABILITY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetLast Chance Animal Rescue Inc — $7,165 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPanama City Beach Paws & Claws — $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetOUTCAST CAT HELP — $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetAlachua County Humane Society Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Petsmart Charities IncBest Friends Animal S…The Duffield Family F…Petco LoveGreater Good CharitiesThe American Society …BISSELL Pet FoundationHumane World for Anim…The Michelson Found A…Florida Animal Friend…Banfield FoundationTwo Mauds Inc
Petsmart Charities IncAZ46.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Florida Animal Friend Inc · Banfield Foundation · Two Mauds 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 Alley Cat Allies Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
  • Flagler Humane Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Tlc Petsnip Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alley Cat Allies Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alley Cat Allies Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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