· Private foundation
BISSELL Pet Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northshore Humane Society | $30,000 |
| Pasco County Board of County Commissioners Animal Services Department | $15,000 |
| Good Shepherd Humane Society Spay & Neuter Clinic | $10,000 |
| Lucky Paw Foundation | $10,000 |
| San Diego Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Friends of Detroit Animal Care and Control | $10,000 |
| Big Lake Humane Society | $10,000 |
| RedRover | $10,000 |
| Espanola Humane | $10,000 |
| SPCA of Southwest Michigan | $5,000 |
| Atchafalaya River Rescue | $5,000 |
| Billys Loving Cats Inc | $5,000 |
| Stop Online Puppy Mills | $5,000 |
| PAWS Chicago | $5,000 |
| Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
500 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 471 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- AHArizona Humane Society5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
- HHHARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $188k · revenue +109%
- BDBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC2× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATESone grant, 2020 · $200k
- BPBEAUREGARD PARISH POLICE JURYone grant, 2022 · $150k
- EPEL PASO ANIMAL SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $141k
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.
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.
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To help rescue unwanted pets
Animal Rescue
For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…
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
Animal shelter and rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Friends Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Equine Advocacy of Louisiana. 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 25 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
625 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. 625 of the 933 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
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
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 Arizona Humane Society ↗
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- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL RESCUE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALASKA NATIVE RURAL VETERINARY INC ↗
- Who funds OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds STOP ONLINE PUPPY MILLS ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF HOPE DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA ↗
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: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pedigree Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Banfield Foundation · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Grey Muzzle Organization · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · The Summerlee Foundation
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 BISSELL Pet 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Paws Lee County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Halifax Humane Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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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