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Anna Oschwald Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$438k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$1.3MHealth$1.1MEducation$535kHuman Services$268k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$36,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$39,100
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$36,250
SOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS$36,250
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS$36,250
THE SALVATION ARMY$36,250
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$36,250
BIDEAWEE INC$36,250
ASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC$36,250
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$36,250
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$36,250
FRIENDS OF ANIMALS$36,250
RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$36,250
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $41k → 22%BIDEAWEE INC: $36k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $41k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $41k → 16%BIDE A WEE INC: $41k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $41k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $41k → 12%FRIENDS OF ANIMALS: $41k → 9%RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $41k → 6%ASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $41k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $36k → 22%BIDEAWEE INC: $35k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $36k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS: $36k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $36k → 12%FRIENDS OF ANIMALS: $36k → 9%RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $36k → 6%ASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $36k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%BIDEAWEE INC: $34k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $35k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $35k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $35k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $35k → 12%FRIENDS OF ANIMALS: $35k → 9%RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35k → 6%ASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $34k → 22%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $41k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $34k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $34k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $34k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $34k → 12%FRIENDS OF ANIMALS: $34k → 9%RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $34k → 6%ASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $34k → 16%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $39k → 6%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $35k → 6%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $41k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $34k → 6%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $36k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $35k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $34k → 17%SOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS: $41k → 6%SOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS: $36k → 6%SOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS: $35k → 6%SOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS: $34k → 6%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$2.9M
$0

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthEducationOther
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

  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $270k · revenue +15%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +51%
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +49%

Funded once

    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
    New York University

    Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

    Education
    2
    The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

    The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

    Animals
    3
    Humane World for Animals International

    HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

    Animals
    4
    Animal Wellness Action

    To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

    Human Services
    5
    The Animal Medical Center

    Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

    Animals
    6
    Drexel University

    Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

    Education
    7
    Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research Inc

    Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…

    Health
    8
    American Humane Association

    Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

    Animals
    9
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

    Health
    10
    Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute Inc

    To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. perform unbiased independent nutrition research and…

    Animals
    11
    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

    Protection of animal rights

    Animals
    12
    Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

    We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    8/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $270,374 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INCFRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC: $267,524 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF ANIMALS INCBIDEAWEE INC: $267,524 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE INCHumane World for Animals Inc: $267,524 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $267,524 · OtherASSOC HUMANE SOCIETY OF NJ INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $267,524 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLS: $267,524 · OtherSOC PREVENTION CRUELTY TO ANMLSRIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $267,524 · OtherRIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONCornell University: $267,524 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $267,524 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…American Heart Association Inc: $267,524 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $267,524 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH IN…
    Animals$1,072,946Other$1,070,096Education$535,048Health$535,048

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $270,374 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC: $267,524 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCornell University: $267,524 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $267,524 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $267,524 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $267,524 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $267,524 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $267,524 over 8y, 0.1% 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.

    • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
    • Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
    • Who funds Cornell University ↗
    • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
    • Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
    • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
    • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Anna Oschwald Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna Oschwald Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
      1get no government money at all
      1report 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.

      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 12 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-PF 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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