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Helen Woodward Animal Center

Our belief that animals help people & people help animals through trust, unconditional love, & respect, creates a legacy of caring.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$268k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $133,568 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,568 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESCUE RANCH$50,000
SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER$25,000
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER: $25k → 11%CENTRAL VALLEY RESCUE RAILROAD: $10k → 18%FRIENDS OF SARATOGA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 7%ULSTER COUNTY SPCA: $25k → 16%STRAY LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI: $25k → 14%HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WILSON CO INC: $10k → 7%PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION: $22k → 14%RESCUE RANCH: $50k → 9%GREENE COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $25k → 9%WAG ON INN RESCUE: $25k → 6%STRAY LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 12%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

ID
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MO
TN
NC
HI
AL

Grants abroad, by region: $35k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$25k · 71% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: FOR ANIMAL SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$10k · 29% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FOR ANIMAL SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its 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
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
4
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
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
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
9
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
10
Countryside Animal Rescue Inc

Rescuing rehabilitating and housing of abandoned and homeless dogs cats and small animals with the mission of finding them new forever homes

Animals
11
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
12
Unos Home for Wayward Cats and Dogs

Animal rescue organization

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pet Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Saratoga County Animal Shelter. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESCUE RANCH INC: $50,000 · AnimalsRESCUE RANCH INCSTRAYLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · AnimalsSTRAYLOVE FOUNDATION INCTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST MO: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST MOSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $25,000 · AnimalsSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INCWAG ON INN RESCUE: $25,000 · AnimalsWAG ON INN RESCUEULSTER COUNTY SPCA: $25,000 · AnimalsULSTER COUNTY SPCAPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $22,429 · AnimalsPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTIONCENTRAL VALLEY RESCUE RAILROAD: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE ASSOC OF WILSON COUNTY: $10,000 · Animals+3 more: $15,000 · Animals+3 moreGREENE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH: $25,000 · OtherGREENE COUNTY …HAWAII PET NETWORK INC: $10,000 · OtherHAWAII PET NET…
Animals$233,429Other$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESCUE RANCH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSTRAYLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST MO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWAG ON INN RESCUE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetULSTER COUNTY SPCA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $22,429 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY RESCUE RAILROAD: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHAWAII PET NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUMANE ASSOC OF WILSON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA CNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $5,000 over 1y, 24% 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.

The Duffield Family F…Petco LoveThe American Society …Petsmart Charities IncPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Helen Woodward Animal Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Woodward Animal Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%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
    2get 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.
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    How do I get to Helen Woodward Animal Center?

    Find your warmest path to Helen Woodward Animal Center 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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