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Doris Day Animal Foundation

The DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION (ddaf) has the straightforward mission of helping animals and those who love them.

$599k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$60k
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 FY2017–2024.

Animals$3.0MHuman Services$251kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kEducation$53kFood & Nutrition$24kEnvironment$20k
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $411k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION WARRIOR SHIELD$60,000
FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS$30,000
GOLD COUNTRY WILDLIFE RESCUE INC$30,000
CENTER FOR GREAT APES$25,000
CHIMP HAVEN INC$25,000
MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES$25,000
SAVE THE CHIMPS$25,000
IOWA PARROT RESCUE INC$25,000
CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW$20,000
PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE$20,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
DOWNTOWN DOG RESCUE$20,000
PIEDMONT FARM ANIMAL REFUGE$15,000
SAVING PETS ONE AT A TIME (SPOT)$15,000
PAWS PATROL INC$15,000
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 (FY19–24, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%OPERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $60k → 20%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $10k → 6%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 24%OPERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $60k → 20%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $60k → 20%OERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $30k → 20%OERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $23k → 20%OERATION WARRIOR SHIELD: $10k → 20%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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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Doris Day Animal Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Doris Day Animal Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 49 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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52

Total granted

$2.6M
$706k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+7%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $315k · revenue +46%
  • NH
    NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +17%
  • MM
    MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES
    6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • AL
    AGROFILMS LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $184k
  • AV
    AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +10%
  • SG
    SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -62%

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
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
2
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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3
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
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
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
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Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
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Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
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Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
9
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
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Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
11
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
12
Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Iowa State University 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%46%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,452

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.

05the grantee network

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 113 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/105
Grantees still filing
63/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Humane World for Animals Inc — $315,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $160,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETYMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES — $150,000 · AnimalsMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELESAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $125,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS — $90,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $90,000 · AnimalsPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $85,000 · Animals+79 more — $1,283,032 · Animals+79 moreThe Fund for Animals Inc — $255,000 · OtherThe Fund for Animals…AGROFILMS LTD — $184,245 · OtherAGROFILMS LTDGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc — $50,000 · OtherGold Country Wildlif…MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION — $44,000 · OtherMAX'S HELPING PAWS F…+12 more — $100,900 · Other+12 moreOperation Warrior Shield — $243,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE TAIL INC — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 · EducationOperation Blankets Of Love — $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INVESTMENT ADVISORS — $17,500 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS — $20,000 · EnvironmentMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $16,000 · Food & NutritionPETS UNITING PEOPLE SOCIETY (PUPS) — $10,000 · ReligionWarrior Dog Foundation — $10,000 · Youth Development
Animals$2,298,032Other$634,145Human Services$270,500Education$202,500Environment$20,000Food & Nutrition$16,000Religion$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $315,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc — $255,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOperation Warrior Shield — $243,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $160,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES — $150,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS — $90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $85,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetIOWA PARROT RESCUE — $69,500 over 5y, 24% of budgetOperation Blankets Of Love — $65,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORSES OF TIR NA NOG — $55,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST — $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDowntown Dog Rescue — $50,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $48,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PET FUND — $45,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma Community Animal Response Team — $40,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetWINGS AND REINS — $35,792 over 5y, 13% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP — $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPaws Patrol Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC — $28,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetWYLIE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetILLINOIS EQUINE HUMANE CENTER NFP — $26,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetGREATER NEW HAVEN CAT PROJECT INC — $23,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPEPPERTREE RESCUE INC — $22,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNAPA COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAWAII PET NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEGIN AGAIN HORSE RESCUE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPERSEVERANCE RANCH EQUINE RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $17,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetBIRCHBARK FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INVESTMENT ADVISORS — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT — $16,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOO HAVEN INC — $15,300 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetANIMAL LIVES MATERALWAYS — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPIEDMONT FARM ANIMAL REFUGE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSPOT — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWHISTLE PIG ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICE CORPORATION — $12,500 over 2y, 20% 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 LoveGreater Good CharitiesBISSELL Pet FoundationPetsmart Charities IncThornton S Jr and Kat…The Summerlee Foundat…The American Society …The Duffield Family F…Humane World for Anim…Dj and T FoundationBest Friends Animal S…William E Dean III Ch…
Petco LoveTX37.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Humane World for Animals Inc · Dj and T Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · William E Dean III Charitable 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 Doris Day Animal 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 · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Equamore Foundation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

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How do I get to Doris Day Animal Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Doris Day Animal 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 113 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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