· Private foundation
Animal Relief Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,808 |
| NOAH'S ARK FOUNDATION INC | $7,808 |
| HOOVES & PAWS RESCUE OF THE HEARTLAND | $7,808 |
| IOWA EQUINE RESCUE AND | $7,808 |
| PEOPLE FOR PETS | $7,808 |
| C & W'S RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC | $7,808 |
| HEALING HEARTS WITH HORSES | $7,808 |
| HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,808 |
| DES MOINES COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,808 |
| IOWA HUMANE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $3,610 |
| HERO'S HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,500 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| FOR PETS SAKE INC | $2,500 |
| SAFE HAVEN OF IOWA COUNTY | $2,070 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +568%
- DMDES MOINES COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +106%
- NANoahs Ark Foundation Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWone grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL CENTER FDTNone grant, 2020 · $3k
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INCORPORATEone grant, 2023 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes
Animal Rescue
Maintain and care for incoming animals.
The van wert county humane society is committed to building a community of responsible pet owners and ending animal cruelty; to offering a safe haven for animals in need; and to attempt through all reasonable avenues to return animals to…
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
Shelter & loving care for strays
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Muscatine Center for Social Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Noahs Ark Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds Hooves & Paws Rescue Of The Heartland ↗
- Who funds IOWA HUMANE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEROS HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PETS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOW ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF IOWA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
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.
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
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 Relief Foundation Trust 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.
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.