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Art for Animals Foundation at a glance

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Art for Animals Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

5
’21
12
’22
12
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$18MAnimals$432kHealth$11kOther$0
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FURR$3,000
ALLEY CAT ALLIES$3,000
SURULUNA ANIMAL RESCUE INC$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SENIOR SIGHTHOUND SANCTUARY$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ANIMAL LEAGAL DEFENSE FUND$2,500
CENTER FOR GREAT APES$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHEN PIGS FLY RANCH: $1k → 9%ANIMAL PLACE: $25k → 11%VEGAN OUTREACH: $25k → 12%FARM SANCTUARY: $5k → 14%CRITTER CREEK: $3k → 19%WOLF CONSERVCATION CENTER: $5k → 9%SURULUNA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $3k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $17.0M → 16%ARTHUR'S ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY ADDRESS: $50k → 16%TIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INC: $40k → 7%SOI DOG FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%UNDERDOG OUTREACH PROJECT: $7k → 15%PIG ADVOCATES LEAGUE INC: $30k → 13%WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $3k → 16%CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $2k → 25%IOWA FARM SANCTUARY: $11k → 15%TILL THE COWS COME HOME: $5k → 11%ELEPHENT SANCTUARY: $3k → 14%BLIND SPOT ANIMALS SANCTUARY: $12k → 14%KANDAS FARM SANCTUARY: $6k → 10%HCHS: $3k → 7%FURR: $3k → 7%SENIOR SIGHTHOUND SANCTUARY: $7k → 7%ALLEY CAT ALLIES: $3k → 8%KHS: $8k → 15%ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $5k → 9%ANIMAL PLACE: $13k → 11%VEGAN OUTREACH: $13k → 12%ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SPCA WESTCHESTER: $3k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 16%ARTHUR'S ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 16%SOI DOG FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%BLIND SPOT ANIMALS SANCTUARY: $10k → 14%SENIOR SIGHTHOUND SANCTUARY: $3k → 7%KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6k → 15%ANIMAL LEAGAL DEFENSE FUND: $3k → 9%ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SUNNYSIDE STREET DOGS: $5k → 16%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

IL
NY
IA
IN
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 8 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$302k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AA
    ARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +37%
  • TB
    THE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +46%
  • AL
    ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TM
    TIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
3
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
4
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
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
6
Karma Farm Sanctuary Inc
Animals
7
Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc
Animals
8
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

—
9
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
10
Spring Farm Sanctuary
Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Angel Wing Acres Animal Welfare Soc Lombas
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,330,000 · EducationCORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION: $68,000 · AnimalsAsia Wild: $45,000 · AnimalsTIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INC: $40,000 · AnimalsAnimal Place: $37,500 · AnimalsPIG ADVOCATES LEAGUE INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN: $21,500 · AnimalsIOWA FARM SANCTUARY: $11,000 · Animals+10 more: $46,300 · AnimalsSoi Dog Foundation USA: $74,500 · PhilanthropySENIOR SIGHTHOUND SANCTUARY: $10,000 · OtherKHS: $8,000 · OtherFARM SANCTUARY: $5,000 · OtherTILL THE COWS COME HOME: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherFURR: $3,000 · OtherHCHS: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherVEGAN OUTREACH INC: $37,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$18,330,000Animals$299,300Philanthropy$74,500Other$43,000Food & Nutrition$37,500

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 budgetCORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,330,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $74,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION: $68,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAsia Wild: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTIBETAN MASTIFF RESCUE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVEGAN OUTREACH INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAnimal Place: $37,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN: $21,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetIOWA FARM SANCTUARY: $11,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERDOG OUTREACH PROJECT: $6,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKanda Farm Sanctuary Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURULUNA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

New Kingston Animal S…Paypal Charitable Giv…Chubb Charitable Foun…ImpactassetsincThe Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Verizon FoundationNetwork for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
New Kingston Animal SanctuaryNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Art for Animals Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Art for Animals Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Art for Animals Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Art for Animals Foundation 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 30 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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