· Public charity
Houston Petset
HOUSTON PETSET is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the homelessness and suffering of companion animals.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $370,280 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $530,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,180 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM | $67,000 |
| GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| LONE STAR ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE FKA THE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB | $15,000 |
| ABBIES ANGELS DBA GOOD LIF3 BULLY RESCUE | $14,500 |
| BAILEY ANIMAL RESCUE TRUST | $10,580 |
| CRIMESTOPPERS OF HOUSTON INC | $10,000 |
| TEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| THREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE | $9,300 |
| JENNI'S RESCUE RANCH | $9,000 |
| SONOMAS HAVEN INC | $8,200 |
| BARRIO DOGS INC | $8,000 |
| HOMELESS PET PLACEMENT LEAGUE INC | $7,500 |
| D&A ANIMAL RESCUE | $7,500 |
| FREEDOM STREET RESCUE | $7,500 |
| LUMPY LIZARD REPTILE POULTRY AND EXOTICS RESCUE | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Houston Petset’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- CRCORRIDOR RESCUE INC5× · 2018–2022 · $179k · revenue +58% · 25% of their budget
- KAK-9 ANGELS RESCUE6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +35%
- SASPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM5× · 2019–2024 · $87k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- ARADOPT RESCUE DOGSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HHHOUSTON HUTS 4 MUTTSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- MAMGM ANIMAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +170%
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.
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.
Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues rehabilitates and rehomes abandoned injured and at risk animals in the Alvin and Greater Houston region providing medical care safe foster placement community education and adoption services to promote humane…
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
Animal Rescue
Cajun Tails Rescue is a dog rescue organization We save dogs and puppies from kill shelters and others in need and get them vetted and adopted out Our goal is to reduce the stray and overpopulation rates and find
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K-9 Angels Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Code 3 Associates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
102 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. 102 of the 128 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 CORRIDOR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds K-9 ANGELS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNITY FOR THE ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LOLAS LUCKY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE Rescue Coalition ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE STREET DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRIO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB ↗
- Who funds ABBIES ANGELSDBA GOOD LIFE BULLY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RED COLLAR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON K-911 RESCUEINC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LITTER CONTROL ↗
- Who funds Sonomas Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Magpies and Peacocks Inc ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RESCUE FOR PTSD ↗
- Who funds Special Pals Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ALLIANCE OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ALL DOGS OFFICIAL RESCUE ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN PET ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE PETS ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS & ORPHANED PETS ENDEAVOR ↗
- Who funds LMN FELINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEY ANIMAL RESCUE TRUST ↗
- Who funds HONORING HOPE AND FAITH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Cares Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds WOLLY KITTEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Greater Good Charities · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Petco Love · Baker Hughes Foundation · Dan L Duncan Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Don a Sanders Family Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Best Friends Animal Society
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 Houston Petset 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.