How much does Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc give?

Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $255,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Animals (19%), Education (18%).

Who are Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Wild Mammal Association Incorporated ($120k), Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($95k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($90k).

Does Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wise Foundation, Dun Foundation, William M Backer Foundation Inc.

Where is Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc based?

Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc is based in VA.

Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc

Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$255k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$360kAnimals$266kEducation$255kEnvironment$135kArts & Culture$127kInternational$85kHealth$58kCrime & Legal$45kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $30k
$10k–50k15 grants · $225k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$40,000
FLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION	$25,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$20,000
DOGS INC	$20,000
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$20,000
LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER	$10,000
LUKES WINGS	$10,000
PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE	$10,000
TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM	$10,000
VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSN	$10,000
1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$10,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION	$10,000
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL	$10,000
BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+66%

Still filing today

74%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

FW
FLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +29%
SG
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +126%

Funded once

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
WW
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +38%
AB
ALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +76%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture

The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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Maymont Foundation

The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Inc

To protect national forests and to reform the u.s. forest service by advocating for environmental ethics, educating citizens, and defending whistleblowers.

Unclassified

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

37 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. 37 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/37

Grantees still filing

30/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$559,350Human Services$201,000Education$200,000Animals$150,000Philanthropy$130,000International$85,000Health$70,000

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.

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.

Wise FoundationVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Frank Mangano Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appreciation of Earth and Animal Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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