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Animal Welfare Fund Inc

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$198k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $115,030, the rows itemized in this filing. The $197,930 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$8,084
Median grant
3
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC$36,083
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD$12,149
PETCONNECT RESCUE INC$11,725
BOWIE CITIZENS FOR LOCAL ANIMAL WELFARE INC$8,348
A NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC$8,151
FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE$8,084
YESTERDAY'S KITTENS OF MARYLAND INC$7,660
STAR GAZING FARM INC$7,535
PLEASE INC$5,185
SHADOW CAT ADVOCATES INC$5,108
SNIP TUCK INC$5,002
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $10k → 10%A NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $8k → 9%COLORADO CANINE RESCUE: $15k → 8%ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 14%COLLIE RESCUE INCORPORATED: $9k → 6%FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 5%MID-ATLANTIC GERMAN SHORTHAIR POINTER RESCUE: $9k → 6%GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $12k → 6%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $43k → 8%BOWIE CITIZENS FOR LOCAL ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $8k → 11%WAGGIN TRAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%WATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $9k → 10%COLORADO CANINE RESCUE: $14k → 8%FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE: $9k → 5%GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $12k → 6%STAR GAZING FARM: $17k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $39k → 8%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY: $16k → 11%LAB RESCUE OF LRCP: $56k → 6%FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE: $8k → 5%GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE: $11k → 6%STAR GAZING FARM: $16k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $36k → 8%DOBERMAN ASSISTANCE RESCUE AND EDUCATION: $8k → 11%WATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $10k → 10%LAB RESCUE OF LRCP: $48k → 6%GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY: $11k → 6%STAR GAZING FARM: $12k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $61k → 8%ADOPT A HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 11%WATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $9k → 10%GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY: $9k → 6%STAR GAZING FARM: $12k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $51k → 8%ADOPT A HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE: $9k → 11%STAR GAZING FARM INC: $11k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $42k → 8%STAR GAZING FARM: $11k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $38k → 8%STAR GAZING FARM INC: $9k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $36k → 8%LAST CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $33k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE: $18k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE: $15k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE INC: $12k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE INC: $11k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE: $11k → 8%PETCONNECT RESCUE INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MA
NV
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
20

Total granted

$1.1M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    Last Chance Animal Rescue Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $381k · revenue +20%
  • LR
    LAB RESCUE OF LRCP INCORPORATED
    2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +2%
  • SG
    STAR GAZING FARM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +78%
  • MG
    Mid-Atlantic German Shorthair Pointer Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +145%
  • DA
    DOBERMAN ASSISTANCE RESCUE & EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +65%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
6
A Forever Home Animal Rescue Inc

Rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders and getting them completely vetted, socialized and adopted into loving homes.

Animals
7
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
All Hearts Rescue

Charity animal rescue for dogs and cats.

Animals
10
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
11
Helping Animals Live Tomorrow Rescue

We are an animal rescue whose large ambitions include rescuing homeless dogs and cats, providing them with medical attention and most importantly, finding them the loving homes they deserve.

Animals
12
Countryside Animal Rescue Inc

Rescuing rehabilitating and housing of abandoned and homeless dogs cats and small animals with the mission of finding them new forever homes

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Heart for Animals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Star Gazing Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 42 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
21/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Last Chance Animal Rescue Inc: $380,943 · AnimalsLast Chance Animal Rescue IncPETCONNECT RESCUE INC: $114,428 · AnimalsPETCONNECT RESCUE INCLAB RESCUE OF LRCP INCORPORATED: $104,559 · AnimalsLAB RESCUE OF LRCP INCORPORATEDWATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $63,501 · AnimalsWATERMELON MOUNTAIN RANCH INCGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $55,907 · AnimalsFREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE: $44,386 · AnimalsA NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $35,549 · Animals+28 more: $263,990 · Animals+28 moreSTAR GAZING FARM: $104,362 · OtherSTAR GAZING FARMNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $47,617 · OtherNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHE…COLORADO CANINE RESCUE: $28,817 · OtherCOLORADO CANINE RESC…YESTERDAY S KITTENS OF MARYLAND INC: $19,171 · OtherYESTERDAY S KITTENS …SHADOW CAT ADVOCATES INC: $18,945 · OtherSHADOW CAT ADVOCATES…+2 more: $14,267 · Other+2 more
Animals$1,063,263Other$233,179

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 IncPetsmart Charities IncThe Duffield Family F…Greater Good CharitiesPedigree FoundationCarmax FoundationThe American Society …The Pfizer Foundation…AbbVie FoundationNetwork for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Animal Welfare Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Animal Welfare Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    15get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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