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Animal Welfare Fund Inc

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$198k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$115k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,084
Largest grant, FY2025
$36,083
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$84k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Animal Welfare Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$115k18%
FY202411$117k9%
FY202312$115k33%
FY20227$94k29%
FY20217$89k14%
FY20209$103k33%
FY20197$93k14%
FY201818$250k17%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.3M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MA
NV
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
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DE
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of Animal Welfare Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Last Chance Animal Rescue Inc$380,94391%
Petconnect Rescue Inc$114,42893%
Lab Rescue of Lrcp Incorporated$104,55926%
Star Gazing Farm$104,36298%
Watermelon Mountain Ranch Inc$63,50181%
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd$55,90750%
Northeast Animal Shelter Inc$47,61770%
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue$44,386525%
A New Beginning Animal Rescue Inc$35,549511%
Colorado Canine Rescue$28,817223%
Waggin Trails Rescue Foundation$24,482312%
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare Inc$19,63636%
Yesterday S Kittens of Maryland Inc$19,1713n/a
Shadow Cat Advocates Inc$18,9453n/a
Adopt A Homeless Animal Rescue$18,938213%
Animal Welfare League$15,90720%
The Humane Society of Baltimore County Inc$15,6921n/a
Collie Rescue Inc$15,506225%
Blue Ridge Border Collie Rescue Inc$11,9522n/a
Alliance for Stray Animals and People$11,0612n/a
Massachusetts Humane Society Inc$10,75629%
Mid-Atlantic German Shorthair Pointer Inc$8,994113%
Doberman Assistance Rescue & Education Inc$8,107117%
A Heart for Animals Inc$8,0111n/a
A Home 4 Ever Rescue Inc$7,65518%
Second Chance Animal Rescue INC$7,624116%
Las Vegas Valley Humane Society$7,60412%
Orphaned Wildlife Rescue Center Inc$7,285128%
Nevada Humane Society$7,04510%
Alpha Group Animal Rescue$6,9821n/a
Greyhound Pet Adoption Maryland Inc$6,2821n/a
Connecticut Humane Society$6,17410%
H E L P Inc-A Home for Every Living Pet$5,66518%
Chihuahua & Small Dog Rescue Inc$5,6291n/a
Greyt Expectations Greyhound Rescue$5,3761n/a
Animal Humane Society$5,28610%
Animal Protection New Mexico$5,25210%
Please Inc$5,18518%
Bunny Lu Adoptions Inc$5,06814%
Delaware Humane Association$5,06510%
Action Program for Animals$5,03611%
Snip Tuck Inc$5,0021n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Animal Welfare Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLast Chance Animal Rescue Inc: $380,943 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPetconnect Rescue Inc: $114,428 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetLab Rescue of Lrcp Incorporated: $104,559 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetStar Gazing Farm: $104,362 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetWatermelon Mountain Ranch Inc: $63,501 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd: $55,907 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast Animal Shelter Inc: $47,617 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFreedom Hill Horse Rescue: $44,386 over 5y, 25% of budgetA New Beginning Animal Rescue Inc: $35,549 over 5y, 11% of budgetColorado Canine Rescue: $28,817 over 2y, 23% of budgetWaggin Trails Rescue Foundation: $24,482 over 3y, 12% of budgetBowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare Inc: $19,636 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetAdopt A Homeless Animal Rescue: $18,938 over 2y, 13% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $15,907 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCollie Rescue Inc: $15,506 over 2y, 25% of budgetMassachusetts Humane Society Inc: $10,756 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetMid-Atlantic German Shorthair Pointer Inc: $8,994 over 1y, 13% of budgetDoberman Assistance Rescue & Education Inc: $8,107 over 1y, 17% of budgetA Home 4 Ever Rescue Inc: $7,655 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSecond Chance Animal Rescue INC: $7,624 over 1y, 16% of budgetLas Vegas Valley Humane Society: $7,604 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOrphaned Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $7,285 over 1y, 28% of budgetNevada Humane Society: $7,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Humane Society: $6,174 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH E L P Inc-A Home for Every Living Pet: $5,665 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $5,286 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Protection New Mexico: $5,252 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlease Inc: $5,185 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBunny Lu Adoptions Inc: $5,068 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDelaware Humane Association: $5,065 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAction Program for Animals: $5,036 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Dog Rescue Fund IncMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dog Rescue Fund Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Pedigree Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Animal Welfare Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Animal Welfare Fund 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.

About Animal Welfare Fund Inc

How much does Animal Welfare Fund Inc give?
Animal Welfare Fund Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $115,030, out of $197,930 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Animal Welfare Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Animal Welfare Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Last Chance Animal Rescue Inc ($381k), Petconnect Rescue Inc ($114k), Lab Rescue of Lrcp Incorporated ($105k).
Does Animal Welfare Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Animal Welfare Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dog Rescue Fund Inc, Petsmart Charities Inc, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund.
Where is Animal Welfare Fund Inc based?
Animal Welfare Fund Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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