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Hope for Paws

HOPE FOR PAWS rescues dogs and all other animals who are suffering on the streets and in shelters.

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$143k
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 2024.

Animals$2.2M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $285,152, the rows itemized in this filing. The $310,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,624 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–50k5 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA ANIMAL RESCUE$143,348
MAISON SURE FOUNDATION$60,000
THE LITTLE RED DOG INC$36,600
MAUI CAT RESCUE$15,000
LAST CHANCE DOG RANCH$10,204
KITT CRUSADERS INC$10,000
FOR THE LOVE OF STREET DOGS$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOR THE LOVE OF STREET DOGS: $10k → 10%SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP: $10k → 10%WETLANDS & WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 11%COSTA RICA DOG RESCUE: $30k → 11%PITTIES & PALS: $55k → 14%A NEW LEASH: $10k → 14%MARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE: $15k → 18%MAUI CAT RESCUE: $35k → 9%ANIMAL ER OF NW HOUSTON: $10k → 14%ASOCIACION STREET DOGS COSTA RICA: $25k → 14%LAST CHANCE DOG RANCH: $10k → 9%BIG BONES CANINE RESCUE: $15k → 9%THE DOG RESCUERS: $20k → 11%DREAM TEAM ANGELS RESCUE: $13k → 14%PITTIES & PALS: $35k → 14%MAUI CAT RESCUE: $15k → 9%PITTIES & PALS RESCUE: $12k → 14%MAUI CAT RESCUE: $13k → 9%PAWPRINTS IN THE SAND: $25k → 10%THE LITTLE RED DOG INC: $37k → 10%MUCH LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $17k → 14%FIXNATION: $50k → 14%AVIAN UNDERDOGS RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $21k → 10%FIXNATION: $50k → 14%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $20k → 14%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION ORG: $20k → 14%FOXY AND THE HOUNDS: $117k → 14%ACE OF HEARTS: $55k → 14%SAFE RESCUE TEAM: $60k → 14%HOLLYWOOD HUSKIES: $14k → 14%THE KRIS KELLY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE KRIS KELLY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%KITTY BUNGALOW: $75k → 14%KITTY BUNGALOW: $75k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $168k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $143k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $120k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $40k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $33k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $30k → 14%LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 14%MAISON SURE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%CANINE LYMPHOMA EDUCATION AWARENESS AND RESEARCH INC: $20k → 14%THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION: $33k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$633k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
40

Total granted

$1.5M
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KB
    KITTY BUNGALOW CHARM SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD CATS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +118%
  • FI
    FixNation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • TF
    THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $73k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • AO
    ACE OF HEARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +87%
  • RF
    RESCUE FROM THE HART
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • CR
    COSTA RICA DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
2
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
3
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
4
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
5
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
8
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
9
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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10
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
11
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
12
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forgotten Dog Foundation; the most unlike its peers is For the Love of Street Dogs. 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

50 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. 50 of the 62 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA ANIMAL RESCUE: $559,656 · AnimalsLA ANIMAL RESCUEFOXY AND THE HOUNDS: $126,750 · AnimalsFOXY AND THE HOUNDSFixNation Inc: $100,000 · AnimalsFixNation IncTHE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION: $72,500 · AnimalsSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $70,000 · AnimalsMAUI CAT RESCUE: $63,000 · AnimalsMAISON SURE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · AnimalsACE OF HEARTS: $55,000 · Animals+32 more: $487,991 · Animals+32 morePITTIES & PALS: $111,895 · OtherPITTIES & PALSTHE KRIS KELLY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE KRIS KELLY FO…RESCUE FROM THE HART: $30,324 · OtherRESCUE FROM THE H…COSTA RICA DOG RESCUE: $30,000 · OtherCOSTA RICA DOG RE…ASOCIACION COSTA RICA: $25,000 · OtherASOCIACION COSTA …SMOOCH POOCH DOG RESCUE: $20,000 · OtherSMOOCH POOCH DOG …+8 more: $76,000 · Other+8 moreKITTY BUNGALOW CHARM SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD CATS: $150,000 · EducationKITTY BUN…Operation Blankets Of Love: $20,000 · EducationOperation…FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATIO…AT-CHOO FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $7,000 · PhilanthropySHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC D/B/A SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGlobal Impact: $10,000 · InternationalNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Animals$1,594,897Other$343,219Education$180,000Philanthropy$52,000Housing & Shelter$10,000International$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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 budgetLA ANIMAL RESCUE: $559,656 over 8y, 52% of budgetKITTY BUNGALOW CHARM SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD CATS: $150,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFOXY AND THE HOUNDS: $126,750 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION: $72,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $70,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMAUI CAT RESCUE: $63,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetMAISON SURE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetACE OF HEARTS: $55,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLittle Red Dog Inc: $47,727 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetAT-CHOO FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBunny World Foundation Inc: $42,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetWetlands and Wildlife Care Center: $30,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLAST CHANCE DOG RANCH INC: $20,204 over 2y, 17% of budgetOperation Blankets Of Love: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCANINE LYMPHOMA EDUCATION AWARENESS AND RESEARCH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF STREET DOGS: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMuch Love Animal Rescue: $16,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPACIFIC WILDLIFE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetBIG BONES CANINE RESCUE SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC: $14,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOLLYWOOD HUSKIES: $13,560 over 1y, 15% of budgetNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE: $11,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC D/B/A SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLast Chance Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITT CRUSADERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetGlobal Impact: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE Rescue Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRETTY GOOD CAT: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE PEPPER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDHARMA RESCUE FOR CATS AND DOGS: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCAUSE FOR SB PAWS: $8,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE LOVEJOY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Cat Connection: $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoggie Bonez Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSouthern California German Shepherd Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGERMAN SHEPHERD SAFE HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 29% 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.

Greater Good CharitiesThornton S Jr and Kat…Sempra FoundationBest Friends Animal S…The Diane Warren Foun…Mary Jo and Hank Gree…Petco LoveThe Michelson Found A…Kayne Anderson Capita…The American Society …The Sussman Family Fo…Pedigree Foundation
Greater Good CharitiesWA31.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · The Diane Warren Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Petco Love · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Sussman Family Foundation Inc · Pedigree 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 Hope for Paws funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hope for Paws. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%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
    3report 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.

    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 62 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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