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George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund at a glance

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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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.7MYouth Development$168kHealth$60k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $233k
$28,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Estelle Marcus Animal Clinic: $39k → 15%Paws For A Cause: $27k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $42k → 7%ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $75k → 8%ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $35k → 8%Paws Chicago: $57k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALUMET AREA: $30k → 15%Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics: $57k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $36k → 7%Save A Pet: $28k → 8%Estelle Marcus Animal Clinic: $28k → 15%Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics: $36k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $36k → 7%Save A Pet: $21k → 8%Estelle Marcus Animal Clinic: $27k → 15%Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics: $30k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $36k → 7%Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics: $22k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $36k → 7%Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics: $22k → 7%Illinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $36k → 7%ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY: $25k → 7%South Suburban Humane Society: $22k → 14%SOUTH SURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 14%The Center: $47k → 14%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $38k → 7%The Center: $34k → 14%NAWS Humane Society: $36k → 7%The Center: $31k → 14%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $33k → 7%The Center: $30k → 14%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $30k → 7%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $30k → 7%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $30k → 7%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $47k → 14%NAWS Humane Sociaty: $28k → 7%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $42k → 14%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $33k → 14%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $33k → 14%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $33k → 14%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $28k → 14%Braveheart Animal Rescue: $28k → 14%BRAVEHEART ANIMAL RESCUE: $20k → 14%Palos Community Hospital WAGS: $60k → 14%Palos Community Hospital WAGS: $60k → 14%PALOS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WAGS PROGRAM: $60k → 14%Traveling Tails: $38k → 14%Traveling Tails: $18k → 14%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +81% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+81%

Still filing today

38%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +7% · 48% of their budget
  • SI
    SPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +150%
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • AA
    ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +81%
  • PC
    PALOS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WAGS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALUMET AREA
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
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
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Illinois Animal Welfare Networkers Association
Animals
3
Abandoned Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
5
Safe Place for Animals

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.

Animals
6
Apet Spca

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.

Animals
7
Animal Welfare Society of Jefferson County

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.

Animals
8
Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption

Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.

Animals
9
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
10
Felines Inc

Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.

Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Humane Animal Partners

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 23 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $263,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIllinois Horse Rescue of Will Count: $222,000 · OtherIllinois Horse Rescue of Will CountIndividual grant recipient: $188,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEstelle Marcus Animal Clinic: $141,228 · OtherEstelle Marcus Animal ClinicPalos Community Hospital WAGS: $120,000 · OtherPalos Community Hospital WAGSIndividual grant recipient: $72,880 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPALOS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WAGS PROGRAM: $60,000 · Other+6 more: $133,635 · Other+6 moreSPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS INC: $166,100 · AnimalsSPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS I…PAWS CHICAGO: $83,734 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOSAVE-A-PET INC: $78,750 · AnimalsSAVE-A-PET INCANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $75,000 · AnimalsANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTERSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $53,750 · AnimalsSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETYORPHANS OF THE STORM: $35,000 · AnimalsORPHANS OF THE STORMILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Animals+2 more: $24,996 · AnimalsTHE CENTER: $168,428 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTE…
Other$1,201,493Animals$542,330Youth Development$168,428

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER: $168,428 over 6y, 48% of budgetSPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS INC: $166,100 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $83,734 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE-A-PET INC: $78,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $53,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetALIVE Rescue NFP: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $9,996 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Arthur J Gallagher Fo…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Muntwyler Wanda Char …Baird Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund. 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
    1report 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 George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund?

    Find your warmest path to George Reed McNeill Animal Welfare Fund 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 23 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-PF 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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