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American Pet Products Association Inc

Appa's mission is to promote responsible pet care and advance the pet products industry. To accomplish these objectives and to provide members with valuable benefits, appa works hard to develop programs and services which serve its members' unique needs. By conducting industry-related market research and holding educational seminars and…

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$932,667
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations American Pet Products Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$1.5M67%
FY20232$985k0%
FY20222$1.2M0%
FY20212$1.2M0%
FY20204$1.6M25%
FY20194$1.9M0%
FY20186$2.1M33%
FY20175$953kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$11MEducation$25kEnvironment$25kScience & Tech$21kHealth$18k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of American Pet Products Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council$6,480,859847%
The Pet Care Trust$2,341,116888%
Pet Leadership Council$1,177,700345%
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation$1,045,000310%
Bird Enjoyment & Advantage Koalition$175,000333%
Michigan State University$78,7751n/a
Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc$50,00010%
Pet Sustainability Coalition$25,00011%
Eastern States Veterinary Association Inc$25,00010%
American Society for Testing and Materials$20,53610%
Green Chimneys Children's Service$18,00010%
Lucky Dog Rescue Inc$15,000116%
The Walrus Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
CATalyst Council Inc$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

American Pet Products Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPet Industry Joint Advisory Council: $6,480,859 over 8y, 47% of budgetThe Pet Care Trust: $2,341,116 over 8y, 88% of budgetPet Leadership Council: $1,177,700 over 3y, 45% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $1,045,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetBird Enjoyment & Advantage Koalition: $175,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPet Sustainability Coalition: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEastern States Veterinary Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Society for Testing and Materials: $20,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Chimneys Children's Service: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLucky Dog Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCATalyst Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 IncAZ12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About American Pet Products Association Inc

How much does American Pet Products Association Inc give?
American Pet Products Association Inc reported 10 grants totaling $1,399,168 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Pet Products Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (99%), Education (0%), Environment (0%).
Who are American Pet Products Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council ($6.5M), The Pet Care Trust ($2.3M), Pet Leadership Council ($1.2M).
Does American Pet Products Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Pet Products Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petsmart Charities Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is American Pet Products Association Inc based?
American Pet Products Association Inc is based in CT.

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 14 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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