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Andrews Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$277kHousing & Shelter$6kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEST FRIENDS$10,000
HALO$6,000
RESCUE PETS OF FLORIDA$5,000
CALUSA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HIGHLANDS CO$5,000
WAG$5,000
HAPPY DOGGO$5,000
POLK COUNTY BULLY PROJECT$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
DOGS AND CATS FOREVER$1,000
UNTIL SUCH TIME$1,000
IMPERIAL POLK OBEDIENCE CLUB$1,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cat Depot: $2k → 9%RESCUE PETS OF FLORIDA: $5k → 11%Barky Pines Animal Rescue and Sanctuary: $3k → 11%HALO: $6k → 12%Canine Estates: $2k → 12%RVR Horse Rescue: $2k → 13%Dogs & Cats Forever: $2k → 13%Heartland Horse Equine Activities & Learning Ctr: $3k → 16%SPCA of Ocala: $4k → 16%WAG: $5k → 16%HAPPY DOGGO: $5k → 17%Best Friends: $10k → 12%Rabun Paws for Life Inc: $3k → 13%Hickory Grove Cat Sanctuary: $8k → 11%Big Dog Ranch Rescue: $2k → 11%HALO: $5k → 12%Suncoast Animal League: $2k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF HIGHLANDS CO: $5k → 16%SPCA Florida of Ocala FL: $2k → 16%Humane Society of Polk County: $5k → 16%WAG: $4k → 16%BEST FRIENDS: $10k → 12%Paws 4 Life: $3k → 13%Hickory Grove Cat Sanctuary: $6k → 11%HALO: $5k → 12%Suncoast Animal League: $2k → 13%Humane Society of Highlands Co: $4k → 16%Humane Society of Polk County: $5k → 16%WAG: $2k → 16%Hickory Grove Cat Sanctuary: $6k → 11%HALO: $3k → 12%Suncoast Animal League: $2k → 13%Humane Society of Highlands Co: $3k → 16%Humane Society of Polk County: $4k → 16%WAG: $2k → 16%Hickory Grove Cat Sanctuary: $5k → 11%HALO: $2k → 12%Humane Society of Highlands Co Fla: $2k → 16%Horse Tales Farm: $5k → 16%Hickory Grove Cat Sanctuary: $5k → 11%Humane Society of Highlands Co Fla Inc: $2k → 16%Humane Society of Polk Co: $5k → 16%Humane Society of Polk Co: $4k → 16%SPCA Florida: $50k → 16%SPCA Florida: $14k → 16%SPCA Florida: $10k → 16%SPCA Florida: $5k → 16%POLK COUNTY BULLY PROJECT: $3k → 16%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 14 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$242k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+35%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationOther
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

  • SI
    SPCA INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $79k · revenue +38%
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +81%
  • CH
    CALOOSA HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SP
    S P C A OF OCALA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • BP
    BARKY PINES ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +451%
  • RP
    Rabun Paws for Life Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
2
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
3
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
4
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
5
Raskels Rescue
Animals
6
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
7
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
8
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
9
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
10
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
11
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
12
South Florida Beagle Rescue Inc

beagle rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Animal League Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cat Depot. 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

17 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. 17 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPCA INC: $79,200 · AnimalsSPCA INCTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC: $23,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INCSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $7,000 · AnimalsHORSE TALES FARM INC: $6,500 · AnimalsHAPPY DOGGO: $5,000 · AnimalsRescue Pets of Florida Inc: $5,000 · Animals+10 more: $23,500 · Animals+10 moreHICKORY GROVE CAT SANCTUARY INC: $31,000 · OtherHICKORY GROVE CAT SANCTUARY INCHALO: $20,500 · OtherHALOBEST FRIENDS: $20,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDSWAG: $13,000 · OtherWAGHUMANE SOCIETY OF HIGHLANDS CO: $12,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF HIGHLANDS COHumane Society of Highlands Co Fla Inc: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · Other+8 more: $14,500 · Other+8 moreCALOOSA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $14,500 · Education
Animals$149,200Other$121,000Education$14,500

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 budgetSPCA INC: $79,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCALOOSA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHORSE TALES FARM INC: $6,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHAPPY DOGGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRescue Pets of Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOGS AND CATS FOREVER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBARKY PINES ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRVR HORSE RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ESTATES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAT DEPOT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrossed Paws Pet Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALOOSA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HORSE TALES FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY DOGGO ↗
  • Who funds Rescue Pets of Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds S P C A OF OCALA INC ↗
  • Who funds DOGS AND CATS FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds BARKY PINES ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY BULLY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds RVR HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE ESTATES INC ↗
  • Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
  • Who funds Crossed Paws Pet Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc ↗

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 CharitiesFlorida Animal Friend…Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Petsmart Charities IncAZ18.6× affinity7 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 · Florida Animal Friend Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Andrews Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrews Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dogs and Cats Forever: 1% of income from government
  • Spca Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Cat Depot: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Andrews Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Andrews Family Foundation 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 32 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-PF 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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