· Public charity
Humane Network
Provide Veterinary care to dogs and cats who would suffer without it, focusing on pets of low-income senior citizens, along with providing education/training and consulting services for animal shelter staff, management and volunteers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $969,973 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,062,948 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,975 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k9 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $432k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $464k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY | $198,850 |
| COMMUNITY CATS | $123,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $71,900 |
| THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $69,600 |
| CITY OF ELY ANIMAL CONTROL | $37,950 |
| TAILS OF NYE COUNTY | $33,700 |
| CITY OF MESQUITE ANIMAL SHELT | $32,050 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICE | $28,050 |
| HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE | $26,550 |
| SPCA OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $23,150 |
| CHURCHILL ANIMAL PROTECTION S | $22,850 |
| PAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE | $22,600 |
| FALLON ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP | $20,500 |
| SOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE | $17,300 |
| A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE | $17,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.
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
- NHNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2018–2019 · $475k · revenue +57%
- HAHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $198k · revenue ×12 · 32% of their budget
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV2× · 2018–2019 · $185k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- LCLOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $251k · revenue -21%
- AHA HOME FOR SPOTone grant, 2018 · $92k
- PRPALNV Rescued Treasures Cat Cafeone grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue -32%
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…
The mission of Operation Pawpulation is to offer support and resources, including low-cost and no-cost spay/neuter, vaccinations and microchips in order to save lives by reducing the number of homeless pets in our community. Spaying and…
To help rescue unwanted pets
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.
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area
Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southern Nevada Animal Rescue League. 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 13 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 60 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 NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CATS ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds PALNV Rescued Treasures Cat Cafe ↗
- Who funds Pet Network Humane Society ↗
- Who funds A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds STREET DOGZ ↗
- Who funds URBAN UNDERDOGS CORP ↗
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: Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · MacNeel Pierce Foundation · The Si Redd & Tamara Redd Charitable Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Healthy Paws Foundation
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 Network 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.
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