· Private foundation
Eric Holby Animal Welfare 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tabbys Place | $8,000 |
| C & W Rustic Hollow Shelter | $6,750 |
| Longhopes Donkey Shelter | $2,500 |
| The Mower County Humane Society | $2,000 |
| The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust | $2,000 |
| Beavers Wetlands & Wildlife | $1,500 |
| Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center | $1,500 |
| International Wolf Center | $1,500 |
| The Hermitage Cat Shelter | $1,500 |
| Dumb Friends League | $1,500 |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $1,500 |
| Physicians Committee for Responsible Med | $1,500 |
| Cat Care Society | $1,500 |
| Orphans of the Storm | $1,000 |
| Naperville Humane Society | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +329%
- MCMOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
- CWCOLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TDTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +192%
- RDRolling Dog Animal Sanctuaryone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Animal rescue and housing
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal Welfare
Animal Rescue
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Suburban Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. 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.
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 35 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 68 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
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 C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds CATNAP FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAT CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEAVERS WETLANDS & WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Felines Inc ↗
- Who funds Leech Lake Legacy ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT PALS ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROLLING DOG FARM ↗
- Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RAPTOR REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
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: Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · AbbVie Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Shell USA Company Foundation · Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main
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 Eric Holby Animal Welfare 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.
- Cat Depot — 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.