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Animal Network Inc

Helping people, helping animals.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Animals$1.2M
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $450,341 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $484,541 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,200 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Birds of Paradise$55,000
Farmhouse Animal & Nature Sanctuary$50,000
Mote Marine Lan & Aquarium$50,000
Lowrider Dachsund Rescue of FL$40,000
Gulf Shore Animal League (GSAL)$30,000
Animal Rescue Coalition$30,000
All Kitty Korner$30,000
Honor Sanctuary Inc$25,000
Underdog Rescue of Florida$25,000
Hooves with Heart$20,000
Love4Paws$20,000
Canine Castaways$20,000
Critter Adoption & Rescue Effort$20,000
Sixteen Hands Horse Sanctuary$15,000
FOMCASorg$10,341
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Animal Rescue Coalition: $30k → 9%Lowrider Dachsund Rescue of FL: $40k → 9%Birds of Paradise: $55k → 10%Critter Adoption & Rescue Effort: $20k → 13%Sixteen Hands Horse Sanctuary: $20k → 25%Canine Castaways: $20k → 25%Animal Rescue Coalition: $30k → 9%Bird of Paradise: $50k → 10%Sixteen Hands Horse Sanctuary: $15k → 25%Canine Castaways: $20k → 25%Love4Paws: $20k → 9%Hooves with Heart: $20k → 10%Love4Paws: $20k → 9%Honor Sanctuary Inc: $100k → 10%Cat Depot: $10k → 9%Honor Sanctuary Inc: $25k → 10%Satchel's Last Chance Resort: $100k → 9%Ewenity Farm Herding Dog Haven: $10k → 10%Feline Friends of SW Florida: $25k → 9%Freedom Ranch Rescue: $10k → 10%Vintage Paws: $10k → 9%All Kitty Korner: $30k → 10%Vintage Paws: $10k → 9%All Kitty Korner: $25k → 10%Mote Marine Lan & Aquarium: $50k → 9%Myakka Elephant Ranch: $100k → 10%Save Our Seabirds: $15k → 9%Farmhouse Animal & Nature Sanctuary: $50k → 10%AMI Pup Rescue: $10k → 10%Farmhouse Animal and Nature Sanctuary: $50k → 10%Underdog Rescue of Florida: $25k → 10%Underdog Rescue of Florida: $10k → 10%Anna Maria Turtle Watch Inc: $10k → 10%Humane Soc Manatee County Inc: $9k → 10%FOMCASORG: $100k → 10%FOMCASorg: $10k → 10%Wildlife Inc: $10k → 10%Gulf Shore Animal League (GSAL): $30k → 10%FOMCASORG: $9k → 10%Gulf Shore Animal League (GSAL): $25k → 10%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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$789k · 12 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$789k
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+36%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • HS
    HONOR SANCTUARY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMAL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +72% · 42% of their budget
  • FA
    FARMHOUSE ANIMAL & NATURE SANCTUARY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +6% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • ME
    MYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • SL
    SATCHELS LAST RESORTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +159%
  • FF
    Feline Friends of Southwest Florida Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -40%

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
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
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
3
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
4
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
5
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
6
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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7
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
8
Angies Dog House

We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…

Animals
9
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
11
Love & Paws Rescue Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Manatee County and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr17%28%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr11%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr17%29%5–10yr21%37%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
14%
601/4,186

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 28 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HONOR SANCTUARY INC — $125,000 · AnimalsHONOR SANCTUARY INCFRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMAL — $119,088 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMALMYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH INC — $100,000 · AnimalsMYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH INCFARMHOUSE ANIMAL & NATURE SANCTUARY INC — $100,000 · AnimalsFARMHOUSE ANIMAL & NATURE SANCTUARY INCSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $100,000 · AnimalsSATCHELS LAST RESORTAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc — $60,000 · AnimalsAnimal Rescue Coalition IncALL KITTY KORNER INC — $55,025 · AnimalsGulf Shore Animal League Inc — $55,000 · AnimalsLOW RIDER DACHSHUND RESCUE OF FL INC — $40,000 · AnimalsLove4Paws Inc — $40,000 · AnimalsCANINE CASTAWAYS INC — $40,000 · Animals+13 more — $219,158 · Animals+13 moreBIRDS OF PARADISE SANCTUARY & RESCUE — $105,000 · OtherBIRDS OF PARADIS…MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $50,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABO…HOOVES WITH HEART INC — $20,000 · OtherHOOVES WITH HEAR…Wildlife Inc — $10,000 · OtherWildlife Inc
Animals$1,053,271Other$185,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMAL — $119,088 over 3y, 42% of budgetMYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFARMHOUSE ANIMAL & NATURE SANCTUARY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetALL KITTY KORNER INC — $55,025 over 2y, 38% of budgetGulf Shore Animal League Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOW RIDER DACHSHUND RESCUE OF FL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLove4Paws Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCANINE CASTAWAYS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNDERDOG RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFeline Friends of Southwest Florida Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetVINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWildlife Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND TURTLE WATCHINC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAMI Pup Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCAT DEPOT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFreedom Ranch Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetEWENITY FARM HERDING DOG HAVEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE COUNTY — $9,158 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Community Foundat…Society for the Preve…Manatee Community Fou…The David O and Marth…Florida Animal Friend…The Louis and Gloria …Gulf Coast Community …The Coville-Triest Fa…The Duffield Family F…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Duke Energy Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL42.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Manatee County Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The David O and Martha G Campbell Family Foundation Inc · Florida Animal Friend Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Coville-Triest Family Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Network 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Anna Maria Island Turtle Watchinc — 0% of income from government
  • Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get 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 · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Animal Network Inc?

Find your warmest path to Animal Network 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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