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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Friends 2 Ferals$6,000
PAWS PLUS VETERINARY CLINIC$6,000
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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 ANIMAL 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 CONTRACEPTION IN CATS: $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 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 ContraceptionACC&D: $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
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

WA
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MI
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CA
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AR
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HI
LA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 60% of Alley Cat Allies Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Alley Cat Allies Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+6%
+25%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
6
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
7
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
8
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
9
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
10
Unos Home for Wayward Cats and Dogs

Animal rescue organization

Animals
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill Humane Society Spca; 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.
05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 53 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetForgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetOUTCAST CAT HELP: $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPanama City Beach Paws & Claws: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlachua County Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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

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 Alley Cat Allies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alley Cat Allies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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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