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American Kennel Club Inc

Akc is a purebred dog registry dedicated to promoting the sport of purebred dogs, responsible dog breeding, canine health & well-being, and the rights of all dog owners; american kennel club, inc.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.6M
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.

Arts & Culture$17MAnimals$10MHealth$2.4MFood & Nutrition$207kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $3,209,341, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,445,355 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,236,014 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $288k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
$167,735
Median grant
3
States reached
$267M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKC MUSEUM OF THE DOG$1,631,606
CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,255,000
THE AKC HUMANE FUND$167,735
NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE TRUST$120,000
V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$25,000
DKMS$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Center for Assualt Treatment Services: $10k → 14%TAKE THE LEAD: $100k → 14%DKMS: $20k → 17%AKC Museum of the Dog: $4.9M → 11%V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 8%Center for Assault Treatment Services: $10k → 14%TAKE THE LEAD: $100k → 14%DKMS: $20k → 17%V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 8%TAKE THE LEAD: $7k → 14%DKMS: $10k → 17%V FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 8 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$29M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+79%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TA
    The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog
    7× · 2018–2024 · $17M · revenue +229% · 74% of their budget
  • AK
    AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +50% · 35% of their budget
  • TA
    The AKC Humane Fund Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $666k · revenue +165% · 75% of their budget

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -24%
  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +79%
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
American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation

American kennel club companion animal recovery (akc car)'s mission is to promote identification of pets and reunite lost pets with their owners. akc car also supports animal relief and recovery efforts during natural or civil disasters,…

Animals
2
The Pet Care Trust
Animals
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
5
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
6
American Kennel Club Inc

Akc is a purebred dog registry dedicated to promoting the sport of purebred dogs, responsible dog breeding, canine health & well-being, and the rights of all dog owners; american kennel club, inc. (akc) is dedicated to upholding the…

Animals
7
The Animal Welfare Foundation
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8
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
9
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
10
Raskels Rescue
Animals
11
The Pet Nutrition Alliance Ltd
Animals
12
Animal Health Foundation of Ca

Non-profit entity sponsoring a variety of projects which promote animal well-being and the human-animal bond.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Akc Humane Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Animal Interest Alliance. 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

12 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog: $16,674,569 · Arts & CultureThe American Kennel Club Museum of the DogAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,162,933 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATIONThe AKC Humane Fund Inc: $665,661 · AnimalsThe AKC Humane Fund IncNAIA TRUST: $470,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,271 · AnimalsTAKE THE LEAD INC: $207,000 · Food & NutritionTHE V FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthDKMS: $50,000 · HealthNATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$16,674,569Animals$12,303,865Food & Nutrition$207,000Health$125,000Philanthropy$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog: $16,674,569 over 7y, 74% of budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,162,933 over 8y, 35% of budgetThe AKC Humane Fund Inc: $665,661 over 6y, 75% of budgetNAIA TRUST: $470,000 over 6y, 65% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC: $207,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDKMS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,271 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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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    Find your warmest path to American Kennel Club 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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