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Humane Network

Provide veterinary care to dogs and cats who would suffer without it, focusing on pets of low-income senior, veterans, disabled individuals and low-income families.

$1.1M
Granted FY2019
36
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Animals$2.4MHousing & Shelter$558kEducation$27k
02FY2019 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $969,973, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,062,948 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,975 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 · FY2019

  • Under $10k9 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $432k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $464k
$14,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$826k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL HOUSE: $27k → 6%DOUGLAS COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICE: $28k → 8%CHURCHILL ANIMAL PROTECTION S: $23k → 10%SPCA OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $162k → 10%LYON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $12k → 11%CITY OF ELY ANIMAL CONTROL: $38k → 11%LOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $251k → 12%CATMANDU: $22k → 13%TAILS OF NYE COUNTY: $34k → 15%WENDROVER PET CONNECTION: $21k → 9%FALLON ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP: $21k → 10%HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE: $172k → 13%NEVER FORGOTTEN ANIMAL SOCIET: $15k → 15%ELKO FELINE FIX PROJECT: $30k → 9%FALLON ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP: $15k → 10%SPCA OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $23k → 10%HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE: $27k → 13%CRCS: $26k → 10%URBAN UNDERDOGS: $21k → 13%ARGONN: $27k → 10%NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $276k → 10%RES-Q-ME ANIMAL RESCUE: $23k → 13%MOFFETT ANIMAL CLINIC: $14k → 10%NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $199k → 10%WASHOE COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL: $18k → 10%A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $26k → 13%PET NETWORK HUMANE SOCIETY: $36k → 10%PAL NV: $51k → 13%A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $17k → 13%COMMUNITY CATS: $124k → 10%SIRS RESCUE RANGERS: $17k → 13%COMMUNITY CATS: $21k → 10%A HOME FOR SPOT: $92k → 13%HEAVEN CAN WAIT: $127k → 13%THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $95k → 13%HEAVEN CAN WAIT: $72k → 13%CITY OF HENDERSON-ANIMAL CONT: $16k → 13%THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $70k → 13%CITY OF MESQUITE ANIMAL SHELT: $32k → 13%HOMEWARD BOUND: $90k → 13%PAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE PET RESC: $42k → 13%PAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE: $23k → 13%BOULDER CITY ANIMAL CONTROL: $16k → 13%NEVADA SPCA: $149k → 13%SOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE: $17k → 13%CONNER AND MILLIES DOG RESCUE: $17k → 13%NEVADA SPCA: $14k → 13%SOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE: $14k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 21 repeat orgs$903k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
24

Total granted

$2.1M
$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

38%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NH
    NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $475k · revenue +57%
  • HA
    HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $198k · revenue ×12 · 32% of their budget
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV
    2× · 2018–2019 · $185k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • LC
    LOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $251k · revenue -21%
  • AH
    A HOME FOR SPOT
    one grant, 2018 · $92k
  • PR
    PALNV Rescued Treasures Cat Cafe
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue -29%
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
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
Claws and Paws for a Cause

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…

Religion
4
Operation Pawpulation

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…

Animals
5
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
6
Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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7
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
8
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
9
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
10
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
11
Peggys Paws

Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area

Animals
12
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

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.…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Animal Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $250,500 · OtherLOVING CARE ANIMAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $198,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV: $185,111 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORT…HOMEWARD BOUND: $99,400 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUNDA HOME FOR SPOT: $91,500 · OtherA HOME FOR SPOT+35 more: $680,600 · Other+35 moreNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $474,850 · AnimalsNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETYHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC: $198,350 · AnimalsHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INCTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $164,600 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATIONNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $162,900 · AnimalsNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSCOMMUNITY CATS: $144,850 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY CATSPAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE: $64,300 · AnimalsPALNV Rescued Treasures Cat Cafe: $50,500 · Animals+13 more: $241,000 · Animals+13 more
Other$1,505,711Animals$1,501,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $474,850 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC: $198,350 over 2y, 32% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV: $185,111 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $164,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $162,900 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE: $64,300 over 2y, 18% of budgetPet Network Humane Society: $45,400 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetA PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $43,200 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $30,800 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSTREET DOGZ: $27,700 over 2y, 22% of budgetLAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDouglas Animal Welfare Group: $11,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPawtastic Friends Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetPets Are Worth Saving Inc: $9,600 over 1y, 17% of budgetWYLIE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $9,100 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetANIMAL NETWORK: $8,700 over 1y, 2.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Dave & Cheryl Duffiel…Humane World for Anim…The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncVincent C and Pamela …Greater Good CharitiesBest Friends Animal S…MacNeel Pierce Founda…The Si Redd & Tamara …Helen Close Charitabl…The Grey Muzzle Organ…Healthy Paws Foundati…
Dave & Cheryl Duffield FoundationNV59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Humane Network?

    Find your warmest path to Humane Network through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 60 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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