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Federation of Humane Organizations
To provide effective means for the propagation of humane principles; to prevent cruelty and neglect to animals; to educate regarding the laws of the state of west virginia pertaining to animal cruelty, neglect, care, health and welfare; to cooperate and network with other similar organizations in such efforts in west virginia; and any…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of FEDERATION OF HUMANE ORGANIZATIONS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $870k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPAY NEUTER INCENTIVE PROGRAM | $155,000 |
| CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER | $150,000 |
| CRITTER CONNECTION CLINIC | $145,000 |
| BERKELEY COUNTY HUMNE SOCIETY | $142,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG WV | $142,500 |
| HELP FOR ANIMALS INC | $135,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAG | $27,500 |
| MERCER FUREVER FIXED CLINIC | $27,500 |
| CCC CLINIC WEBARK | $25,000 |
| MINGO COUNTY COMMISSION | $9,000 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 85% of your 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- SNSpay Neuter Incentive Program of WV3× · 2022–2025 · $905k · revenue +131% · 48% of their budget
- BCBerkeley County Humane Society3× · 2022–2025 · $463k · revenue +30%
- CRCHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREone grant, 2022 · $450k
- KHKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue +69%
- MCMARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue -4%
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 spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes
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…
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Morgan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Care and Helping Animals Survive Emergencies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 Spay Neuter Incentive Program of WV ↗
- Who funds Berkeley County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG ↗
- Who funds Help For Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds CRITTER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FUREVER FIXED INC ↗
- Who funds Webark Estates Inc ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLEASANTS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Nelson Animal Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds New River Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE VICTORIES ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF MORGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF BARBOUR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CONTROL AND WELFARE PROJECT ↗
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 · Two Mauds Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Federation of Humane Organizations 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.
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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