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Houston Petset

HOUSTON PETSET is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the homelessness and suffering of companion animals.

$530k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$67k
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$3.0MCrime & Legal$61kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kReligion$24kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$6kHealth$500
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $370,280, the rows itemized in this filing. The $530,460 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $160,180 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

  • Under $10k32 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
D&A ANIMAL RESCUE$7,500
FREEDOM STREET RESCUE$7,500
LUMPY LIZARD REPTILE POULTRY AND EXOTICS RESCUE$7,500
HOMELESS PET PLACEMENT LEAGUE INC$7,500
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALING SPECIES TEXAS: $5k → 9%MAGPIES & PEACOCKS INC: $26k → 16%HEALING SPECIES TEXAS: $3k → 9%MAGPIES AND PEACOCKS INC: $4k → 16%MAGPIES AND PEACOCKS INC: $3k → 16%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Houston Petset’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Houston Petsetlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 85 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
30

Total granted

$3.0M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-5%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic 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

  • CR
    CORRIDOR RESCUE INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $179k · revenue +58% · 25% of their budget
  • KA
    K-9 ANGELS RESCUE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +35%
  • SA
    SPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $87k · revenue +234%

Funded once

  • AR
    ADOPT RESCUE DOGS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • HH
    HOUSTON HUTS 4 MUTTS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • MA
    MGM ANIMAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +170%
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
West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals
2
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
3
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
4
Angies Dog House

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…

Animals
5
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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6
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
7
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
9
Sunnyside Street Dogs I

Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.

Animals
10
Cajun Tails 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

Animals
11
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
12
River Run Ranch and Animal Rescue

Animal Rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save Rescue Coalition; 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.
05the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 128 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/102
Grantees still filing
57/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORRIDOR RESCUE INC: $179,000 · AnimalsCORRIDOR RESCUE INCK-9 ANGELS RESCUE: $94,583 · AnimalsK-9 ANGELS RESCUESPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM: $86,500 · AnimalsSPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAMLOLAS LUCKY DAY INC: $69,000 · AnimalsSAVE Rescue Coalition: $65,250 · AnimalsTEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATION NETWORK INC: $61,600 · Animals+77 more: $1,047,629 · Animals+77 moreFRIENDS OF COUNTYPETS: $692,690 · OtherFRIENDS OF COUNTYPETSHARRIS COUNTY PRECINCT 5 CONSTABLES FOUNDATION: $362,572 · OtherHARRIS COUNTY PRECINCT 5 CONSTABLES FOUNDATIONUNITY FOR THE ANIMALS INC: $72,000 · OtherCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $60,910 · OtherSOUTH SIDE STREET DOGS INC: $55,193 · Other+33 more: $227,650 · Other+33 moreMagpies and Peacocks Inc: $32,180 · Human ServicesHEALING SPECIES TEXAS: $7,000 · Human ServicesGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $6,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $721 · PhilanthropyCODE 3 ASSOCIATES INC: $5,500 · Public Safety & DisasterExecutive Service Corps of Houston Inc: $5,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · Health
Animals$1,603,562Other$1,471,015Human Services$39,180Philanthropy$7,221Public Safety & Disaster$5,500Community Improvement$5,500Health$500

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 budgetCORRIDOR RESCUE INC: $179,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetK-9 ANGELS RESCUE: $94,583 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetSPRAY AND NEUTER INITIATIVE PROGRAM: $86,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetUNITY FOR THE ANIMALS INC: $72,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetLOLAS LUCKY DAY INC: $69,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSAVE Rescue Coalition: $65,250 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetTEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATION NETWORK INC: $61,600 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $60,910 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH SIDE STREET DOGS INC: $55,193 over 3y, 21% of budgetBARRIO DOGS INC: $50,500 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB: $45,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetABBIES ANGELSDBA GOOD LIFE BULLY RESCUE INC: $41,350 over 6y, 25% of budgetTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE: $41,200 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRED COLLAR RESCUE INC: $39,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHOUSTON K-911 RESCUEINC: $39,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTEXAS LITTER CONTROL: $38,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSonomas Haven Inc: $34,200 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetOPERATION PETS ALIVE: $33,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $33,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMagpies and Peacocks Inc: $32,180 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE: $32,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetRESCUE FOR PTSD: $28,500 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetSpecial Pals Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL ALLIANCE OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $26,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALL DOGS OFFICIAL RESCUE ENTERPRISE: $25,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetFORGOTTEN PET ADVOCATES: $24,800 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $23,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE PETS: $23,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetHOMELESS & ORPHANED PETS ENDEAVOR: $21,850 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetLMN FELINE RESCUE: $21,600 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAILEY ANIMAL RESCUE TRUST: $19,580 over 5y, 14% of budgetHONORING HOPE AND FAITH RESCUE INC: $17,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetHouston Cares Animal Rescue: $16,925 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAnimal Justice League: $16,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetWOLLY KITTEN CLUB: $16,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetPEARLAND PARVO RECOVERY CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHomeless Pet Placement League: $15,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetPET RESCUE TEAM INC: $14,120 over 3y, 23% of budgetFREEDOM STREET RESCUE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHANCE MISSION VETERINARY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOODLE RESCUE OF HOUSTON: $11,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPUP SQUAD ANIMAL RESCUE: $10,750 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetALBERTS DOG LOUNGE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCYPRESS LUCKY MUTT RESCUE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS WOLFDOG PROJECT: $9,800 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetSPCA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $9,700 over 2y, 0.8% 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 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 OPERATION PETS ALIVE ↗
  • Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
  • 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 Animal Justice League ↗
  • Who funds WOLLY KITTEN CLUB ↗

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.

Leslie L Alexander Fo…Greater Good CharitiesShell USA Company Fou…The Michelson Found A…Greater Houston Commu…Petco LoveBaker Hughes Foundati…Dan L Duncan Foundati…Petsmart Charities IncDon a Sanders Family …The Duffield Family F…Best Friends Animal S…
Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL65.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    8report 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 128 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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