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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…

$964k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$4.1M
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $870k
$142,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPAY NEUTER INCENTIVE PROGRAM$155,000
CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER$150,000
CRITTER CONNECTION CLINIC$145,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG WV$142,500
BERKELEY COUNTY HUMNE SOCIETY$142,500
HELP FOR ANIMALS INC$135,000
MERCER FUREVER FIXED CLINIC$27,500
MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAG$27,500
CCC CLINIC WEBARK$25,000
MINGO COUNTY COMMISSION$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Berkeley Humane: $166k → 11%Hardy County Commission: $24k → 13%Grant County Commission: $24k → 14%Pleasants County Humane Society: $23k → 15%Marion County Humane Society: $24k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MORGAN COUNTY WV: $10k → 16%Mineral County Commission: $22k → 16%TUCKER COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 16%TAYLOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $24k → 16%MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAG: $28k → 18%CHASE HEALING FUND PUTNAM CO: $10k → 18%Jackson County Commission: $24k → 18%Spay Neuter Incentive Program of West Virginia: $600k → 19%NELSON ANIMAL RETREAT INC: $10k → 19%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG SPOT CLINIC: $150k → 19%MASON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $24k → 19%HELP FOR ANIMALS INC: $150k → 19%Barbour County Commission: $24k → 20%NEW RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 20%WETZEL COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 21%MERCER FUREVER FIXED CLINIC: $28k → 21%CRITTER CONNECTION CLINIC: $145k → 26%BERKELEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $155k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MORGAN COUNTY WV: $10k → 16%TUCKER COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 16%TAYLOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 16%CCC CLINIC WEBARK: $25k → 18%CHASE HEALING FUND PUTNAM CO: $10k → 18%SPAY NEUTER INCENTIVE PROGRAM: $155k → 19%NELSON ANIMAL RETREAT INC: $10k → 19%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA: $143k → 19%MASON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 19%HELP FOR ANIMALS INC: $135k → 19%NEW RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 20%WETZEL COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 21%The Critter Connection: $125k → 26%BERKELEY COUNTY HUMNE SOCIETY: $143k → 11%TAYLOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 16%MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $24k → 18%SNIP WV: $150k → 19%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG WV: $143k → 19%MASON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 19%HELP FOR ANIMALS INC: $135k → 19%WV DEPT OF AGRICULTURE - WV SNP FUND: $450k → 18%CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC: $150k → 18%FIXEM OPERATING: $150k → 18%CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER: $150k → 18%Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association: $80k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 23 repeat orgs$732k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$3.4M
$671k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+6%

Still filing today

61%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SN
    Spay Neuter Incentive Program of WV
    3× · 2022–2025 · $905k · revenue +131% · 48% of their budget
  • BC
    Berkeley County Humane Society
    3× · 2022–2025 · $463k · revenue +30%
  • CR
    CHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • KH
    KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue +69%
  • HC
    Hardy County Commission
    one grant, 2024 · $24k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Williams County Humane Society

To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter

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2
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

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.

Animals
3
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
4
Mineral County Humane Society Inc

rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes

Animals
5
Claws and Paws for a Cause

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…

Religion
6
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
7
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
8
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
9
Haywood Pet Care Inc

Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs

Animals
10
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
11
Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab Inc

To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Morgan County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Berkeley County Humane Society: $463,000 · AnimalsBerkeley County Humane SocietyCHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC: $450,000 · AnimalsCHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG: $446,680 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURGHelp For Animals Inc: $420,000 · AnimalsHelp For Animals IncCRITTER CONNECTION: $270,000 · AnimalsCRITTER CONNECTIONKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · Animals+11 more: $253,610 · Animals+11 moreSpay Neuter Incentive Program of WV: $905,000 · OtherSpay Neuter Incentive Program of WVWEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $450,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE+14 more: $338,492 · Other+14 morePLEASANTS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,000 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$2,383,290Other$1,693,492Recreation & Sports$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpay Neuter Incentive Program of WV: $905,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetBerkeley County Humane Society: $463,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCHARLESTON REGIONAL SPAY NEUTER CENTER INC: $450,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG: $446,680 over 4y, 11% of budgetHelp For Animals Inc: $420,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCRITTER CONNECTION: $270,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $51,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWebark Estates Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $24,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPLEASANTS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNew River Humane Society Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF MORGAN COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNelson Animal Retreat Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLITTLE VICTORIES ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRANDOLPH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $18,660 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMONROE COUNTY ANIMAL LEAGUE: $17,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS OF BARBOUR COUNTY INC: $15,550 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetANIMAL CONTROL AND WELFARE PROJECT: $11,400 over 2y, 7.5% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Petco LoveTwo Mauds IncPetsmart Charities IncBest Friends Animal S…Greater Good CharitiesBISSELL Pet FoundationHumane World for Anim…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Petco LoveTX20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Federation of Humane Organizations funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federation of Humane Organizations. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Federation of Humane Organizations?

    Find your warmest path to Federation of Humane Organizations 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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