Minnesota · Private foundation
Animal Relief Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,808
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,808
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Animal Relief Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $92k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $81k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $87k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $73k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $36k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $33k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $31k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington County Humane Society | $67,541 | 8 | 4% |
| Des Moines County Humane Society | $56,220 | 7 | 2% |
| Noahs Ark Foundation Inc | $42,788 | 8 | 4% |
| C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC | $36,998 | 9 | 3% |
| Healing Hearts With Horses | $30,976 | 8 | n/a |
| Heartland Humane Society Ltd | $27,307 | 7 | 3% |
| Hooves & Paws Rescue Of The Heartland | $25,394 | 3 | 12% |
| Iowa Humane Alliance | $23,575 | 9 | 1% |
| Heros Haven Animal Rescue | $22,050 | 4 | 13% |
| People for Pets | $18,308 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington County Humane Society | $67,541 | 8 | 4% |
| Des Moines County Humane Society | $56,220 | 7 | 2% |
| Noahs Ark Foundation Inc | $42,788 | 8 | 4% |
| C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC | $36,998 | 9 | 3% |
| Healing Hearts With Horses | $30,976 | 8 | n/a |
| Heartland Humane Society Ltd | $27,307 | 7 | 3% |
| Hooves & Paws Rescue Of The Heartland | $25,394 | 3 | 12% |
| Iowa Humane Alliance | $23,575 | 9 | 1% |
| Heros Haven Animal Rescue | $22,050 | 4 | 13% |
| People for Pets | $18,308 | 8 | 1% |
| Humane Society of North Central Iow | $16,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Johnson County Humane Society Inc | $15,408 | 7 | n/a |
| For Pets Sake Inc | $13,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Safe Haven of Iowa County | $11,570 | 7 | 1% |
| Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc | $10,545 | 6 | 0% |
| Animal Lifeline of Iowa Inc | $9,333 | 9 | 0% |
| Heartland Humane Society | $7,808 | 1 | 0% |
| Muscatine Center for Social Action | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Johnson County Humane Society | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Animal Relief Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Miccio Foundation · Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Animal Relief Foundation Trust
- How much does Animal Relief Foundation Trust give?
- Animal Relief Foundation Trust reported 16 grants totaling $91,752 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Animal Relief Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (92%), Human Services (6%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are Animal Relief Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington County Humane Society ($68k), Des Moines County Humane Society ($56k), Noahs Ark Foundation Inc ($43k).
- Does Animal Relief Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Animal Relief Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Animal Relief Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, The Miccio Foundation, Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Inc.
- Where is Animal Relief Foundation Trust based?
- Animal Relief Foundation Trust is based in MN.
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