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Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

The mission of the Atlanta Humane Society is to improve animal welfare in the southeastern United States by providing quality animal services including preventative initiatives, education, advocacy and adoption of animals into permanent loving homes.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$792k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$3.0MHousing & Shelter$55k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $1,090,302, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,431,508 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $341,206 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $290k
  • $250k+1 grant · $792k
$31,280
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Remedy Pet Care Inc$792,000
Meriwether County Animal Services$47,704
Ahimsa House Inc$45,463
Critical Care for Animal Angels$34,777
Allmons All About Animals$32,234
Renegade Paws Rescue$31,280
Chattooga County Animal Control Shelter$29,608
Royal Animal Refuge$27,621
City of Lyons$26,774
PAWS Atlanta$14,462
Newnan Coweta Humane Society$8,379
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Royal Animal Refuge: $28k → 6%Newnan Coweta Humane Society: $8k → 8%Bryan County Animal Control: $23k → 8%Tri-State Humane Society: $11k → 11%White County Animal Control: $7k → 12%Humane Society of Camden County: $14k → 12%Whitfield County Animal Shelter: $27k → 13%Murray County Animal Shelter: $25k → 13%PAWS Atlanta: $14k → 14%Oconee Regional Humane Society: $10k → 14%Humane Society for Greater Savannah: $27k → 16%Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter: $23k → 16%South Georgia Equine Rescue: $22k → 16%Meriwether County Animal Services: $48k → 17%Allmons All About Animals: $32k → 17%Castaways Pet Rescue: $30k → 17%2 Hands Saving 4 Paws Humane Society Inc: $27k → 18%City of LaGrange Animal Shelter: $11k → 18%Chattooga County Animal Control Shelter: $30k → 18%Critical Care for Animal Angels: $35k → 18%Washington-Wilkes Animal Shelter: $11k → 19%City of Alapaha Animal Control: $18k → 19%Douglas-Coffee County Animal Shelter: $24k → 20%City of Lyons: $27k → 21%Animal Welfare & Adoption Center of Grady County: $29k → 22%Evans County Animal Shelter: $25k → 22%City of Soperton Animal Control: $41k → 22%City of Nashville Dog Pound: $10k → 22%Best Friends Humane Society In Worth County: $15k → 22%Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society: $30k → 23%Blakely Animal Shelter: $12k → 24%City of Unadilla Animal Shelter: $26k → 24%City of Ashburn Animal Shelter: $32k → 26%Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Humane Society: $33k → 27%Albany Humane Society Inc: $16k → 28%Jenkins County K911 Rescue: $12k → 28%Terrell County Animal Shelter: $40k → 29%The Rescue Ranch: $15k → 31%Southern Comfort Animal Rescue: $30k → 31%Humane Society of Camden County: $8k → 12%Remedy Pet Care Inc: $792k → 14%Coastal Pet Rescue Inc: $9k → 16%Castaways Pet Rescue Inc: $7k → 17%McDuffie County Animal Shelter: $25k → 18%Flint Humane Society: $38k → 24%Terrell County Animal Control: $15k → 29%Humane Society of Greater Savannah: $6k → 16%Renegade Paws Rescue: $31k → 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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 5 repeat orgs$951k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
31

Total granted

$2.1M
$652k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

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

  • RP
    Remedy Pet Care Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +51% · 79% of their budget
  • TC
    Terrell County Animal Shelter
    2× · 2020–2023 · $55k
  • CP
    CASTAWAYS PET RESCUE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $37k

Funded once

  • FM
    FURGET ME NOT ANIMAL RESCUE LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • CO
    City of Soperton Animal Control
    one grant, 2023 · $41k
  • FH
    FLINT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
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
Southern Souls Rescue

Animal Welfare and Rescue.

Animals
2
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Angel Dog Rescue Inc

The mission of Angel Dog Rescue, Inc is to rescue and provide humane treatment, medical care and homes for the homeless and abused dogs and cats in and around, but not limited to, Quitman County and surrounding counties in Georgia and…

Animals
5
Stephens County Humane Society

We are a non-profit, no-kill animal rescue shelterToday, the Humane Society providesMedical treatment for animals,shots and heart worm tests, medications,foster homes, care and feed for fostered animals not housed at the shelter, trailer…

Animals
6
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
Southeast Ga Humane Society

Humane treatment of animals.

Animals
9
Screven County Spay & Neuter Corp

Screven County Spay & Neuter Corp is a nonprofit Animal Rescue Dedicated to the care Medical Treatment Rehabilitation and adoption of dogs. The Organization Provides funds for veterinary services Spay and Neuter and placement into adoptive…

Animals
10
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
11
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
12
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomasville-Thomas County Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Lab rescue 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

29 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. 29 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Remedy Pet Care Inc: $1,992,000 · AnimalsRemedy Pet Care Inc+20 more: $443,534 · Animals+20 moreTerrell County Animal Shelter: $54,716 · OtherTerrell County Animal S…Meriwether County Animal Services: $47,704 · OtherMeriwether County Anima…FURGET ME NOT ANIMAL RESCUE LLC: $41,987 · OtherFURGET ME NOT ANIMAL RE…City of Soperton Animal Control: $41,446 · OtherCity of Soperton Animal…FLINT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $38,109 · OtherFLINT HUMANE SOCIETY IN…Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Humane Society: $33,011 · OtherALLMONS ALL ABOUT ANIMALS INC: $32,234 · OtherCity of Ashburn Animal Shelter: $32,096 · OtherChattooga County Animal Control Shelter: $29,608 · OtherAnimal Welfare & Adoption Center of Grady County: $29,203 · OtherCity of Lyons: $26,774 · OtherCONASAUGA DRUG COURT: $26,752 · Other2 HANDS SAVING 4 PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $26,534 · OtherCity of Unadilla Animal Shelter: $26,454 · OtherMcDuffie County Animal Shelter: $25,000 · OtherMurray County Animal Shelter: $24,612 · OtherEvans County Animal Shelter: $24,510 · OtherBRYAN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: $23,340 · Other+7 more: $69,213 · Other+7 more
Animals$2,435,534Other$653,303

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRemedy Pet Care Inc: $1,992,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetCRITICAL CARE FOR ANIMAL ANGELS INC: $34,777 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH: $33,165 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALLMONS ALL ABOUT ANIMALS INC: $32,234 over 2y, 29% of budgetRENEGADE PAWS RESCUE INC: $31,280 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSouthern Comfort Animal Rescue Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MOULTRIE AND COLQUITT COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNortheast Georgia Animal Shelter Inc: $22,922 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTH GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE: $21,787 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $21,593 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,806 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $15,359 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE RANCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWASHINGTON-WILKES HUMANE SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC: $10,900 over 1y, 12% of budgetLAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,394 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSWEET ONION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $9,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCoastal Pet Rescue Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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.

Greater Good CharitiesFixGeorgiaPets IncPetsmart Charities IncPetco LoveFirehouse Subs Public…Pedigree FoundationBest Friends Animal S…The Duffield Family F…The Community Foundat…Assurant FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
Greater Good CharitiesWA26.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · FixGeorgiaPets Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Pedigree Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Assurant Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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.

    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 46 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 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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