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Greater Good Charities

GREATER GOOD CHARITIES works to help people, animals and the environment by mobilizing in response to need and amplifying the good.

$137M
Granted FY2025still arriving
122
Grants FY2025still arriving
38
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$14MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$360kEnvironment$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$92kHousing & Shelter$90kInternational$74kYouth Development$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 122 grants below total $1,013,372, the rows itemized in this filing. The $136,519,175 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,505,803 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k92 grants · $368k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $480k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$5,600
Median grant
38
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER$90,950
THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS$74,321
LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE$42,370
SECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC (NY)$29,380
SIMPLY CATS$27,158
SAFE BERKS$22,832
BERKELEY EAST BAY HUMANE SOCIETY$22,000
GUARDIANS OF FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE INC$21,131
CROSSING PATHS ANIMAL RESCUE$19,989
CHAR-WILLS GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE$19,900
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WILKES$19,230
BUBBLES DOG RESCUE$18,149
GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY$17,562
HUMANE ANI WELF SOC OF WAUKESHA COUNTY$17,300
WETLANDS AND WILDLIFE CARE CENTER$16,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $25k → 7%SAFE BERKS: $23k → 11%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 8%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $8k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $2k → 9%PATRIOTS PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $40k → 5%THE SPRING: $2k → 15%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $23k → 12%1MATTERSORG: $12k → 18%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10k → 18%PATRIOTS PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $37k → 5%CANINES FOR SERVICE: $22k → 12%NORTHEAST OHIO SPCA: $5k → 17%1MATTERSORG: $6k → 18%ORGANIZATION OF HOPE (BRIDGING HOPE): $7k → 19%PATRIOTS PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $29k → 5%GATEWAY TO LEARNING: $9k → 14%ANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION OF VENTURA CO: $15k → 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $7k → 5%GOD'S DOGS RESCUE: $215 → 16%SOLES4SOULS INC: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF MATENWA: $10k → 8%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 5%GATEWAY TO LEARNING: $239 → 14%SOLES4SOULS INC: $9k → 14%YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS: $8k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 246 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

246 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 176 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

246
327

Total granted

$12M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+23%

Still filing today

85%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TP
    THE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $457k · revenue +1% · 30% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +90%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $249k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2021 · $324k · revenue +23%
  • FW
    FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I
    one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue 0%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +8%
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
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
2
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
6
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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10
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
11
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
12
Pound Pets Inc

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

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 Reality's Place. 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

1082 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
310
Early backer (in before they grew)
1043/1082
Grantees still filing
680/1082
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINGS OF RESCUE INC: $3,493,218 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INCTHE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC: $457,263 · AnimalsTHE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC: $319,798 · Animals+120 more: $5,001,766 · Animals+120 moreST HUBERT'S GIRALDA D/B/A ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $330,007 · OtherST HUBERT'S GIRALD…The Fund for Animals Inc: $163,916 · OtherThe Fund for Anima…VETERAN HOMESTEAD INC: $124,854 · OtherVETERAN HOMESTEAD …DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $100,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $80,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $159,488 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITC…SUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $101,974 · Other+35 more: $1,070,220 · Other+35 moreFeeding America: $324,244 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $210,046 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $30,000 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+7 more: $145,272 · Food & NutritionPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $115,028 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER CENTER: $55,000 · Human ServicesCanines for Service Inc: $44,427 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $26,835 · Human ServicesALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSAFE BERKS: $22,832 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC: $18,859 · Human Services1MATTERSORG: $17,807 · Human ServicesSpikes K9 Fund: $132,750 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $80,181 · Public Safety & DisasterCODE 3 ASSOCIATES INC: $44,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $41,070 · Public Safety & DisasterVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $131,393 · Public BenefitOPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC: $93,329 · Public BenefitPets for Vets Inc: $71,790 · Public BenefitTHE PET PROJECT FOR PETS INC: $79,410 · HealthAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthNATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC: $28,997 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthA NEW LEAF: $25,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $23,065 · HealthSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $20,423 · HealthNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $20,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $18,038 · Health
Animals$9,272,045Other$2,130,459Food & Nutrition$734,562Human Services$325,788Public Safety & Disaster$298,001Public Benefit$296,512Health$289,933

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $3,493,218 over 5y, 52% of budgetTHE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC: $457,263 over 6y, 30% of budgetST HUBERT'S GIRALDA D/B/A ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $330,007 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $324,244 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC: $319,798 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $249,091 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $210,046 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc: $163,916 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $159,488 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $135,362 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund: $132,750 over 3y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $131,485 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $131,393 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVETERAN HOMESTEAD INC: $124,854 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $115,028 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $111,663 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $104,425 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $104,181 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I: $103,616 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $101,974 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $101,023 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGive Me Shelter Project Inc: $98,404 over 4y, 18% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $97,641 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC: $93,329 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCROSSING PATHS ANIMAL RESCUE: $90,793 over 5y, 11% of budgetLiberty Humane Society Inc: $89,968 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetWAGGLE FOUNDATION INC: $87,155 over 3y, 36% of budgetAngelico Cat Rescue Inc: $84,907 over 4y, 81% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH MYRTLE BEACH INC: $80,713 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $80,181 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PET PROJECT FOR PETS INC: $79,410 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetLOUDON COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC: $71,825 over 4y, 62% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $71,790 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $67,650 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $61,120 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC: $60,243 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center: $59,959 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetRhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $59,123 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $59,040 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJust Strays Animal Foundation Inc: $58,334 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAT HAVEN INC: $57,888 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $56,385 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTH VALLEY: $55,680 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAloha Ilio Rescue: $50,920 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 LoveBISSELL Pet FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Best Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…The American Society …Banfield FoundationPetsmart Charities IncPedigree FoundationThe Michelson Found A…The Grey Muzzle Organ…Vca Charities
Petco LoveTX143.6× affinity242 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Banfield Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Pedigree Foundation · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Vca Charities

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 Greater Good Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Good Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 627 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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