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Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc

The animal legal defense fund's mission is to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.

$668k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$6.2MCrime & Legal$175kEducation$60kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $472,856 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $668,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,249 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $439k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE OF WASHINGTON ATTORNEY GENERAL$150,000
ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS$130,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE FAMILY COURT JUDGES$100,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON$59,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$20,000
VIRGINIA ANIMAL FIGHTING TASK FORCE$13,856
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAGE COUNSELING INC: $15k → 11%CASCADE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE: $10k → 14%Pennsylvania SPCA: $8k → 22%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $18k → 10%Prevent Cruelty California: $10k → 14%YUBA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%GODSPEED HORSE HOSTEL: $10k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $130k → 14%BARK NATION INC: $21k → 8%DESCHUTES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIES-LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL: $382k → 12%BENTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: $120k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $101k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%ANIMAL LAW CENTER: $9k → 7%THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%WHIDBEY ANIMALS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $59k → 9%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 11%MCHENRY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: $51k → 6%ANIMAL RESCUE CORPS: $20k → 13%VIRGINIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL: $210k → 22%Nat Counc of Juv & Fam Court: $50k → 10%BORN FREE USA: $115k → 8%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $100k → 14%Center for Animal Law Studies: $366k → 12%BENTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: $120k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $20k → 11%HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $18k → 6%VIRGINIA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL: $120k → 22%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $100k → 14%CENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIES-LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL: $330k → 12%Benton County District Atty: $120k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $20k → 11%VIRGINIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL: $60k → 22%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $100k → 14%Center for Animal Law Studies: $283k → 12%Benton County District Atty: $105k → 18%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $75k → 14%CENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIES-LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL: $274k → 12%BENTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: $90k → 18%ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS: $66k → 14%CENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIES-LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL: $140k → 12%Assn of Prosecuting Attorneys: $66k → 14%LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL: $26k → 12%Assn of Prosecuting Attorneys: $66k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 14%SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 12 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
23

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

42%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $415k · revenue +35%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • VO
    VIRGINIA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
    one grant, 2021 · $120k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru Spca

The Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit's primary mission is to prevent cruelty to animals.

Human Services
3
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
4
Animal Partisan Inc

Animal Partisan, Inc. is organized for the purposes of conducting legal advocacy on behalf of animals subjected to cruelty and exploitation.

Animals
5
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
6
Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Inc
Philanthropy
7
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
8
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
9
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
10
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
12
Lexus Project Inc

Legal defense for animals

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Animal Rescue and AdoptionWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE — $1,775,459 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGEThe George Washington University — $1,103,042 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS INC — $703,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS INC+1 more — $110,000 · EducationSTATE OF WASHINGTON ATTORNEY GENERAL — $300,000 · OtherSTATE OF WASHINGTON ATTORNEY GEN…VIRGINIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL — $270,000 · OtherVIRGINIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY …BENTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — $240,000 · OtherBENTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTBenton County District Atty — $225,000 · OtherBenton County District AttyBENTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY — $210,000 · OtherBENTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYWASHINGTON STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL — $150,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE ATTORNEY GENERA…UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $141,070 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTVIRGINIA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL — $120,000 · OtherVIRGINIA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENE…+10 more — $209,718 · Other+10 moreNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES — $415,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL …NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES FUND INC — $125,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL …Born Free USA united with API — $115,000 · AnimalsVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $59,000 · AnimalsBARK NATION — $21,254 · AnimalsAnimal Rescue Corps Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,695 · AnimalsVirginia Animal Fighting Task Force — $13,856 · Animals+6 more — $57,863 · AnimalsEarth Island Institute Inc — $17,600 · Environment
Education$3,691,501Other$1,865,788Crime & Legal$540,000Animals$304,668Environment$17,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE — $1,775,459 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,103,042 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS INC — $703,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES — $415,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES FUND INC — $125,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API — $115,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue Corps Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,695 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $17,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGodspeed Horse Hostel Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPrevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committee — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWHIDBEY ANIMALS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $9,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $8,263 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Humane World for Animals IncDC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humane World for Animals Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Lewis & Clark College2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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