· Private foundation
Animal Relief Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +136%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Animal Relief Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Animal Relief Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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