· Private foundation
Art for Animals Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Art for Animals Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Cornell University Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Art for Animals Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $140k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOI DOG FOUNDATION | $49,500 |
| PIG ADVOCATES LEAGUE INC | $30,000 |
| IOWA FARM SANCTUARY | $11,000 |
| BLIND SPOT ANIMALS SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| UNDERDOG OUTREACH PROJECT | $6,500 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| WOLF CONSERVCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ALLEY CAT ALLIES | $3,000 |
| FURR | $3,000 |
| SURULUNA ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $3,000 |
| SENIOR SIGHTHOUND SANCTUARY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL LEAGAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- AAARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION2× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +37%
- TBTHE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +46%
- ALANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TMTIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
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.
Animal Welfare
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.
Animal Welfare
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunnyside Street Dogs I. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 98% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds ARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Asia Wild ↗
- Who funds TIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Place ↗
- Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PIG ADVOCATES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN ↗
- Who funds IOWA FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Kanda Farm Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE STREET DOGS I ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds SURULUNA ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
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: New Kingston Animal Sanctuary · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Art for Animals Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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