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Animal Welfare Institute
Since 1951, the ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people.
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.
The 24 grants below total $424,924 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,401,530 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $976,606 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION INITIATIVES INC (SII) | $103,780 |
| PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES | $35,000 |
| AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,974 |
| BUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE (BNGA) | $16,500 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $15,020 |
| SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK | $15,000 |
| WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES (GFAS) | $15,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PRINCIA | $15,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| WHALES OF GUERRERO | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $14,881 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI | $14,870 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $785k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $657k to organizations and $127k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: CHRISTINE STEVENS WILDLIFE AWARD · ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
- SISustainable Innovation Initiatives Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $139k · revenue +91% · 34% of their budget
- BIBeaver Institute Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $99k · revenue ×27 · 77% of their budget
- WEWild Earth Society Incorporated2× · 2022–2024 · $48k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TWTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $57k · revenue +18%
- HSHumane Society of St Thomasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +47%
- GIGARDEN ISLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +11%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology is both a natural history collection specializing in eggs and nests of birds from around the world, and a research and education institution dedicated to bird conservation.
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
104 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. 104 of the 131 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 PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC ↗
- Who funds OPR COASTAL PRIMATE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Innovation Initiatives Inc ↗
- Who funds Beaver Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds GARDEN ISLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOG INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEATHERBACK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds PRIMATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · The Summerlee Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Anti-Vivisection Society · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The American Anti-Vivisection Society · Winley Foundation · Defenders of Wildlife · Wildlife Conservation Society · Wilburforce Foundation · Weeden Foundation
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 Welfare Institute 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sustainable Innovation Initiatives Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Beaver Coalition Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
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.
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