· Private foundation
George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count | $36,000 |
| NAWS Humane Society | $35,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,000 |
| The Center | $30,250 |
| Save A Pet | $28,000 |
| Paws For A Cause | $26,666 |
| Estelle Marcus Animal Clinic | $26,643 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| Paws Chicago | $2,484 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% 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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 73% 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
- TCTHE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +7% · 48% of their budget
- SISPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +96%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- AAANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +45%
- PCPALOS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WAGS PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $60k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF CALUMET AREAone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
AAR is an all volunteer organization that works towards ending pet overpopulation that results in the euthanasia of unwanted cats and dogs by providing a rescue and adoption center by emphasizing the importance of spaying and neutering and…
Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…
Safe Place for Animals is a no-kill animal shelter providing animal care services to low income individuals and providing food and shelter for local abandoned animals.
APET SPCA operates a no-kill shelter for abandoned and surrendered animals. We hold adoption events and provide public education on spay & neuter and animal welfare.
The organization provides health and welfare care for abandoned animals through its no-kill animal shelter to homeless puppies, kittens, dogs and cats as well as spay-neuter, inoculation, and adoption services.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
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.
Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 THE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Rescue NFP ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League ↗
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.
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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 George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund 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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