· Public charity
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless
Feeding pets of the homeless believes in the healing power of companion pets and the human/animal bond which is very important in the lives of many homeless.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS’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.
The 40 grants below total $1,173,946 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,239,033 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,065,087 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $586k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISCELLANEOUS CASH GRANTS 5000 | $586,127 |
| B STREET VETERINARY HOSPITAL | $52,420 |
| ARK VETERINARY CARE | $45,392 |
| SPCA SF - ALABAMA ST | $31,603 |
| BOULEVARD ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $29,001 |
| ARK ANIMAL HOSPITAL - LOS ANGELES | $28,590 |
| DTLA VETERINARY SERVICES | $28,323 |
| VCA NATOMAS ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $27,110 |
| SAGE BETERINARY CENTERS - SF | $25,940 |
| ARK ANIMAL HOSPITAL - VICTORVILLE CA | $23,425 |
| TROPICANA ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $19,517 |
| ABBY PET HOSPITAL | $18,895 |
| MONTCLAIR PET HOSPITAL | $18,851 |
| SOCAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $18,375 |
| CROWS LANDING VETERINARY HOSPITAL | $18,194 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
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
- MCMISCELLANEOUS CASH GRANTS 50004× · 2022–2025 · $2.5M
- MCMISC CASH GRANTS UNDER 50005× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M
- BSB STREET CLINIC VET9× · 2017–2025 · $294k
Funded once
- GAGREENWOOD ANIMAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $25k
- OAOAKVET ANIMAL HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $14k
- ADAMBASSADOR DOG AND CAT HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
Advocates 4 Animals A4A Pet Pantry is a 100% volunteer 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to keeping animals with their families during financial hardship by providing pet food and spay-neuter assistance. We also operate an adoption program caring…
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
To keep pets with their families during financially difficult times.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
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.
To serve pets in need in nevada county by providing pet food/supply vouchers, spay and neutering services, and veterinary care.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
Our mission is to collaborate with individuals and humane rescue groups in order to save the lives of homeless dogs and cats by promoting and facilitating access to affordable, high volume/high quality spay and neuter surgeries in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauai Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amazonsmile 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 104 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.
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: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Best Friends Animal Society · Banfield Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · Foundation for Animal Care & Education · Inquiring Systems Inc · Vca Charities · American Veterinary Medical Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Pedigree 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 Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless 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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