· Public charity
Humane America Animal Foundation
To promote and implement innovative and effective programs that have significant and measurable benefit for animals and people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $7,967,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,624,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,656,879 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $478k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD SOLUTION ACTION | $1,505,000 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE (US) | $755,000 |
| THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE | $560,000 |
| KARUNA FOUNDATION | $515,000 |
| THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION | $390,000 |
| LEAD FOR FARMED ANIMALS | $372,308 |
| NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE | $370,000 |
| LEVER FOUNDATION GROWTH FUND | $350,000 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS | $265,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $205,000 |
| THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD | $180,000 |
| MATERIAL INNOVATION INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| LEVER FOUNDATION INC | $165,000 |
| SENTIENT MEDIA | $140,000 |
| GREENER BY DEFAULT | $135,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $613k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.6M on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $1.5M to organizations and $75k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT · GENERAL SUPPORT, SUPPORT REROOT ASIA PROGRAM · GENERAL SUPPORT, TO IMPROVE FISH WELFARE
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT · PROTEIN TRANSITION IN CHINA · WELFARE MATTERS
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT · GENERAL SUPPORT, MODEL C GRANTING FISCAL SPONSORSHIP, RELEASE OF FUNDS FOR MISSION ALIGNED WORK
Stated purpose: FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL WELFARE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NEXUS RESOLUTION SIDE EVENT DURING THE AMCEN1 MEETING HELD ON 17TH AUGUST 2023 IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. · RESTRICTED FOOD SYSTEM RESEARCH GRANT "WHAT ARE EVIDENCE BASED STRATEGIES TO PREVENT FURTHER INTENSIVE ANIMAL FARMING IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES?" · SUPPORT VEGAN VIDEO DOCUMENTARY AND VEGAN COMMUNITY BUILDING
Stated purpose: COVER OFFICE SPACE FOR 1 YEAR · FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
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. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Humane America Animal Foundation’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 +32% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- FSFOOD SOLUTIONS ACTION2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +111% · 82% of their budget
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +432%
- THTHE HUMANE LEAGUE3× · 2020–2023 · $900k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CACOMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $113k · revenue +50%
- PAPHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION USA INCone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +1%
- CGClaremont Graduate Universityone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -24%
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
Animal and Vegan Advocacy International, Inc. is dedicated to creating a world in which animals are removed from the food system and other human uses. It furthers this mission by convening advocates through an international conference…
Food animal concerns trust (fact) promotes the safe and humane production of meat, milk, and eggs. fact envisions that all food-producing animals be raised in a healthy and humane manner so that everyone will have access to safe and…
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
Pax fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the u.s., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Balanced Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 78 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 FOOD SOLUTIONS ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Karuna Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FOOD PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Roots Institute ↗
- Who funds LEVER FOUNDATION GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ↗
- Who funds MATERIAL INNOVATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LEVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FISH WELFARE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SENTIENT MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GREENER BY DEFAULT ↗
- Who funds COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINK CHARITY ↗
- Who funds FAUNALYTICS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Equality ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INNERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE MARKETS ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
- Who funds AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds DHARMA VOICES FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PLANT BASED FOODS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Breakthrough Institute ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT FOOD INVESTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR COMPETITIVE MARKETS ↗
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: The Quinn Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Karuna Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Good Ventures Foundation · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40 · Aceso Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vegfund Inc
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 Humane America Animal Foundation 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.
- Project Innerspace Inc — 34% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.
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