· Private foundation
David P Tenberg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL USA | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $20,000 |
| DREAM TIME ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY CAT CONTROL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +112%
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +61%
- INIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- BBBLACK BEAUTY RANCH THE ANIMAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +72%
- AWAmerican Wild Horse Sanctuaryone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
American Alliance for Protection of Animals is a not for profit charity organization based in New York City, that protects animals and promotes animal welfare. We educate and spread awareness about animal cruelty and neglect and puppy…
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOS USA ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CAT CONTROL ↗
- Who funds DREAMTIME ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David P Tenberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David P Tenberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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