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American Pet Products Association Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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American Pet Products Association Inc

Appa's mission is to promote responsible pet care and advance the pet products industry.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$933k
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 2024.

Animals$11MEducation$25kEnvironment$25kScience & Tech$21kHealth$18k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $483k
  • $250k+1 grant · $933k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PET INDUSTRY JOINT ADVISORY COUNCIL (PIJAC)$932,667
PET CARE TRUST$210,000
HUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION (HABRI)$144,067
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$78,775
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$50,000
JOYBOUND$25,000
PET SUSTAINABILITY COALITION$25,000
ASTM INTERNATIONAL$20,536
LUCK'S RESCUE INC$15,000
WALRUS AND WINE$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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LUCK'S RESCUE INC: $15k → 9%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

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 5 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$11M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+61%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
AnimalsScience & TechHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • PI
    PET INDUSTRY JOINT ADVISORY COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +17% · 47% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PET CARE TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +121% · 88% of their budget
  • JP
    Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • ES
    Eastern States Veterinary Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +61%
  • GC
    GREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +9%
  • CC
    CATalyst Council Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +191%
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
The Pet Nutrition Alliance Ltd
Animals
3
Pet Helpers
Animals
4
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
5
Happy Pet Owners Nonprofit Organization
—
6
The Animal Welfare Foundation
—
7
Pet Rescue Alliance Inc

Rescue animals from shelter

Animals
8
Companion Animal Placement Inc
Animals
9
Bissell Pet Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
11
Rescue Coop
Animals
12
Humane World for Animals Inc

Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council; the most unlike its peers is The Walrus 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PET INDUSTRY JOINT ADVISORY COUNCIL: $6,480,859 · OtherPET INDUSTRY JOINT ADVISORY COUNCILPet Leadership Council: $1,177,700 · OtherPet Leadership Council+4 more: $281,775 · OtherTHE PET CARE TRUST: $2,341,116 · AnimalsTHE PET CARE TRUSTJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $1,045,000 · AnimalsJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony …+3 more: $80,000 · AnimalsEastern States Veterinary Association Inc: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS: $20,536 · Science & TechLUCKY DOG RESCUE INC: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$7,940,334Animals$3,466,116Education$25,000Science & Tech$20,536Human Services$15,000

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 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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