· Private foundation
Friends of Animals Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL PETS ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $4,583 |
| Individual grant recipient | $856 |
| INDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETY | $850 |
| ALMOST HOME HUMANE SOCIETY | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIET | $550 |
| WILDCAT VALLEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $510 |
| PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE | $500 |
| WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY | $500 |
| OAK GROVE VETERINARY CLINIC | $466 |
| BACK TO BASICS PROJECTS | $350 |
| SAVING SURVIRORS THREATENED WILDLIF | $350 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNITED STATES | $350 |
| TIGER HAVEN | $350 |
| TURNING POINT DONKEY RESCUE | $350 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 91% 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +31%- PVPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $1k · revenue +114%
- THTIGER HAVEN INC4× · 2018–2022 · $1k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- BFBorn Free USA united with APIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +243%
- STSAVE THE CHIMPS INCone grant, 2019 · $450 · revenue -26%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $450 · revenue +147%
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
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.
Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…
Animal Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 73 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds TIGER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Peaceable Primate Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
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: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Janice Spencer Calkin Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The Weill Family Foundation · Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker 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 Friends of Animals 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% 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.