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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$454kHuman Services$104kEducation$90kEnvironment$80kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$35k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $85,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $926,397 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $841,397 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 $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

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:

Its 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. Its 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
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
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

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

+41%
+37%

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
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

  • REWILD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue +18%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +54%
  • 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
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
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.

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4
Pets Return Home

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

Animals
5
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
6
Paws of War Inc

To rescue, train and place shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to our veterans & first responders that suffer the traumatic effects of war, and provide essential and supportive services to our heroes in need.

Animals
7
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
8
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
9
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
10
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
11
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
12
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pets for Patriots Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …Canines for Service Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCanines for S…MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $25,000 · Human ServicesMAIN LINE DEP…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCanines for Service Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $25,000 over 3y, 9.7% 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
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 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

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 American Humane Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Humane Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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.

    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 33 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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