How much did BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY grant in FY2024?

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY reported 307 grants totaling $17,110,976 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY based?

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY is based in UT.

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY

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· Public charity

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets.

$17M

Granted FY2024

307

Grants

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Communities

$2.4M

Largest

01What you fund

0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Animals$43MEducation$669kCrime & Legal$318kHuman Services$167kPhilanthropy$160kYouth Development$151kPublic Benefit$36kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$8kOther$11M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

uplandbreedershesperialife-savingfiscalcats catstnr trap

2020

relief goodwillpet adoptionaniciraabandoned mistreatedfostering respectrescue tucsonmaui

2021

hamiltoncomfort careunnecessary euthanasiasheltering caretravelhumane greatergreater savannah

2022

many dogsanimals spayraising awarenesscontinuescharlotte-mecklenburgseverely injuredamarillo

2023

rehabilitate rehomeenglish springerimminentdangeradoption advocacytcapensure animals

2024

harrisonpet's sakesake rescueanimals transitionsmyth southwestrescue establishedgulf coast

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 307 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k79 grants · $547k
$10k–50k174 grants · $3.8M
$50k–250k43 grants · $4.0M
$250k+11 grants · $7.8M

$17,405

Median grant

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States reached

$201M

Total assets

Largest grants

AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$2,350,000
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$1,394,250
OPERATION KINDNESS$865,525
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY - NORTHEAST GEORGIA$544,900
WEST VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY$492,000
THOMASVILLE THOMAS CTY HUMANE SOCIETY$486,300
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$399,531
MASSACHUSETTS SPCA$399,300
HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH$316,600
CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY$268,990
PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE$262,350
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA$240,000
BETTERTOGETHER FOREVER$203,750
BELLEVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$201,705
ANGEL CITY PIT BULLS$201,542

02Your 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$44M · 317 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

317 repeat relationships — 172 still active in FY2024, 145 since wound down; 134 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

317

376

Total granted

$44M

$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+50%

Still filing today

72%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

JH
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY
6× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +14%
AP
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE
6× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +30%
SC
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +111%

Funded once

AO
ACE OF HEARTS DOG RESCUEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $898k · revenue +199%
RC
RANDOLPH COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES
one grant, 2023 · $171k
CO
COUNTY OF LA-ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL LONG BEACH
one grant, 2022 · $123k

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

03Your 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.

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Santa Cruz Co Animal Shelter Foundation

To support santa cruz county animal services authority through education, public awareness, fund raising, support of current projects, and establishment of new projects.

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Aminal Rescue

Animals

Happy Acres Pet Rescue

Animals

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

Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals

A Forever Home Animal Rescue Inc

We rescue abandoned, injured, abused dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders. They are given medical treatments, socialized and made ready for adoption to their forever home. We have rescued thousands in the 12 years…

Animals

Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals

Rescuing Unwanted Furry Friends

Animals

Animal Humane Society

To engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.

Animals

Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals

Runaways Animal Rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County and the most unlike its peers is Kane Schools Foundation for Student. 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.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%9/809

the rest of the field

11%

206,155/1,818,756

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

545 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

267

Early backer (in before they grew)

533/545

Grantees still filing

437/545

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$42,823,030Other$10,700,061Education$669,160Crime & Legal$318,250Human Services$166,685Philanthropy$160,000Youth Development$151,332

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.

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 LoveTX207.4× affinity276 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation · Banfield Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Pedigree Foundation · Vca Charities · The Grey Muzzle Organization

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 organisation BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CITY OF AZTEC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861864352 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CITY OF AZTEC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Best Friends Animal Society through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

545 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Best Friends Animal Society?

More from the funding graph

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

545 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Best Friends Animal Society?

More from the funding graph