Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals.

$926k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$454kHuman Services$104kEducation$90kEnvironment$80kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$35k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $85,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $926,397 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $841,397 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER$54,000
PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE$25,000
ANIMAL AID INC$6,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $8k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $54k → 6%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $10k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $8k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $8k → 12%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

WA
ND
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $921k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $841k to organizations and $80k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$841k · 91% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT

South America$80k · 9% · 1 person

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$305k · 8 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
23

Total granted

$305k
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • REWILD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue +18%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +38%
  • SK
    SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +770%

Funded once

  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -7%
  • TP
    THE PET CARE TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +117%
  • DP
    Dog People of Livingston
    one grant, 2017 · $42k

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
3
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

—
4
Angies Dog House

We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…

Animals
5
Companion Animal Placement Inc
Animals
6
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
7
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
8
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
9
K9 Global Rescue

K9 global rescue is a dedicated group of former combat veterans working with volunteers in cooperation with rescue organizations, government agencies and disaster relief agencies world wide for the humanity of dogs and all animals.

Animals
10
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
11
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
12
Lexis Legacy Animal Rescue
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pets for Patriots Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lois Pope Life Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Veteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%50%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%14%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,533

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REWILD — $105,000 · AnimalsREWILDINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $60,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCTHE PET CARE TRUST — $50,000 · AnimalsTHE PET CARE TRUSTDog People of Livingston — $42,000 · AnimalsDog People of LivingstonTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $35,000 · AnimalsTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC — $23,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INCCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES — $18,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC — $17,500 · Animals+8 more — $60,154 · Animals+8 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERAN-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS — $40,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATI…ST LANDRY PARISH ANIMAL CONTROL — $27,400 · OtherST LANDRY PARISH A…DR WALTER J ERNEST JR VETERINARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherDR WALTER J ERNEST…CITY OF WALKER ANIMAL CONTROL — $16,000 · OtherCITY OF WALKER ANI…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE — $15,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FUND…Great Plains Assistance Dogs Foundation — $12,500 · OtherGreat Plains Assis…COMPANION ANIMAL RESCUE OF ASCENSION INC CARAS HOUSE — $7,000 · OtherPURRS OF HOPE RESCUE — $5,000 · OtherISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $54,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE …MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG — $25,000 · Human ServicesMAIN LINE DEP…Canines for Service Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesCanines for S…PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · EducationPALM BEACH …Tuskegee University — $40,000 · EducationTuskegee Un…LOIS POPE LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropySoi Dog Foundation USA — $20,900 · PhilanthropySEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $35,000 · Public BenefitLABS FOR LIBERTY — $15,000 · Public Benefit
Animals$410,654Other$142,900Human Services$104,000Education$90,000Philanthropy$55,900Public Benefit$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREWILD — $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $54,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetTHE PET CARE TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTuskegee University — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERAN-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS — $40,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOIS POPE LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG — $25,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetCanines for Service Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC — $23,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA — $20,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDR WALTER J ERNEST JR VETERINARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES — $18,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLABS FOR LIBERTY — $15,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGreat Plains Assistance Dogs Foundation — $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC — $11,644 over 1y, 16% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDogs on Deployment — $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetANIMAL AID INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAT HAVEN INC — $5,010 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IncGreater Good CharitiesShell USA Company Fou…Humane World for Anim…Petco LoveThe Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Petsmart Charities IncAZ21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Shell USA Company Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Petco Love · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 American Humane Association 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 33 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.

    Source object · view filing

    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