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Banfield Foundation

BANFIELD FOUNDATION is committed to improving the well-being of pets & communities by elevating the power of the pet-human bond; strengthening the pet welfare community; providing disaster relief for pets and advancing the science of veterinary medicine.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$8.8MHealth$857kPublic Safety & Disaster$180kHousing & Shelter$83kHuman Services$75kCrime & Legal$28kEducation$26kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 85 grants below total $1,849,916 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,819,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $969,350 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $814k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $545k
  • $250k+1 grant · $301k
$10,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$300,990
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$114,209
HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA$82,212
OUR BIG FAT CARIBBEAN RESCUE$72,391
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$60,000
BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER (BARCS)$57,570
SPAY MONTANA$55,600
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$52,500
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$50,693
UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB$47,202
THE INNER PUP$40,280
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$40,000
REDROVER$40,000
MADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER$36,013
SOUTHERN PINES ANIMAL SHELTER ( HEALTHY PET CLINIC)$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $15k → 11%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $8k → 6%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $65k → 17%FAMILY PLACE INC: $10k → 14%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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ME
VT
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MT
ND
MN
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NY
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OR
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IN
OH
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NJ
CT
CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 116 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
194

Total granted

$6.1M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+31%

Still filing today

96%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    4× · 2020–2024 · $798k · revenue +82%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $615k · revenue +67%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $207k · revenue +321%

Funded once

  • DV
    DEVELOPING VETERINARY MEDICINE CAREERS
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -71%
  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue +44%
  • DW
    DR WALTER J ERNEST JR VETERINARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue 0% · 52% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
2
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…

Education
3
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
4
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
5
Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers Pc

Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.

Community Improvement
6
Liberty Humane Society Inc

We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.

Animals
7
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
9
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
10
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
11
Prevent Homeless Pets

Our mission is to collaborate with individuals and humane rescue groups in order to save the lives of homeless dogs and cats by promoting and facilitating access to affordable, high volume/high quality spay and neuter surgeries in a…

Animals
12
Humane Society of Richland Wilkin Co

To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co and the most unlike its peers is The Serengeti Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%25%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/358
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,207

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.

04the grantee network

315 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. 315 of the 348 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
313/315
Grantees still filing
239/315
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEVELOPING VETERINARY MEDICINE CAREERS — $1,516,113 · AnimalsDEVELOPING VETERINARY MEDICINE CAREERSArizona Humane Society — $798,124 · AnimalsArizona Humane SocietyHumane World for Animals Inc — $615,222 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA — $467,513 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA+160 more — $4,103,933 · Animals+160 moreDR WALTER J ERNEST JR VETERINARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $89,898 · OtherANIMAL BALANCE — $81,032 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $40,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $37,373 · OtherSOVEREIGN NATIONS VETERINARY — $32,086 · OtherMARICOPA COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT — $25,200 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $25,000 · Other+18 more — $231,835 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College — $155,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $117,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation — $34,978 · EducationCornell University — $14,530 · Education+1 more — $10,195 · EducationGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $203,750 · PhilanthropyURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SERENGETI FOUNDATION — $95,100 · EnvironmentMERCER VETERINARY CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS — $30,615 · Health
Animals$7,500,905Other$562,424Education$331,703Philanthropy$203,750Human Services$100,000Environment$95,100Health$30,615

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetArizona Humane Society — $798,124 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $615,222 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA — $467,513 over 5y, 20% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $207,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $203,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR ANIMALS INC — $122,726 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $117,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER — $99,482 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $99,175 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INNER PUP — $98,824 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetSpay Montana — $98,600 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE SERENGETI FOUNDATION — $95,100 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOur Big Fat Caribbean Rescue Inc — $91,651 over 4y, 24% of budgetDR WALTER J ERNEST JR VETERINARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $89,898 over 1y, 52% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE — $81,032 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetStarfish Animal Rescue — $77,677 over 2y, 11% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $77,570 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB — $72,202 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $67,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTHERN PINES ANIMAL SHELTER — $65,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAIPAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $65,400 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $59,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW HUMANE — $59,672 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN — $55,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAcadiana Animal Aid — $53,559 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER — $51,794 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY — $49,320 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $47,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT — $44,944 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,701 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $38,261 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $37,373 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $35,067 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $34,978 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $33,744 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVeterinarians for Puerto Rico Corp — $31,931 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSPAY NEUTER NETWORK — $30,772 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERCER VETERINARY CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS — $30,615 over 3y, 18% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $29,995 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPAY N SAVE INC — $29,711 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — $27,896 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNevis Animal Speak — $27,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $26,283 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Petco LoveThe American Society …Best Friends Animal S…The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncBISSELL Pet FoundationGreater Good CharitiesHumane World for Anim…Pedigree FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…Vca CharitiesThe Michelson Found A…
Petco LoveTX195× affinity147 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Humane World for Animals Inc · Pedigree Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Vca Charities · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc

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 Banfield 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • People for Animals Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Banfield Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Banfield 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 348 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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