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Humane Society Silicon Valley

At HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$262k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHELTER ANIMALS COUNT$30,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC$15,000
ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC$15,000
FRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INC$15,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF YUMA: $10k → 15%Animal Rescue League of Western PA DBA Humane Animal League: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF FRONT STREET SHELTER: $10k → 12%ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC: $15k → 17%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $10k → 8%SHELTER ANIMALS COUNT: $30k → 13%Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $5k → 7%TELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $10k → 8%Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region: $5k → 9%The Humane Society for SeattleKing County: $10k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%ASSISI ANIMAL CLINICS OF VIRGINIA INC: $10k → 20%NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%THE ANIAML FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $15k → 15%RUFF HAVEN: $10k → 8%Angels Among Us Pet Rescue Inc: $11k → 13%THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 37% of Humane Society Silicon Valley’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. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Humane Society Silicon Valleylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
3
Valley Humane SocietyInc

Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…

Animals
4
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc

UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.

Animals
5
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
6
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
7
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
8
Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter

Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…

Animals
9
Liberty Humane Society Inc

We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.

Animals
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Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe

The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.

Animals
11
Humane Society of the Sierra Foothills

To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.

Animals
12
Raskels Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Assisi Animal Clinics of Virginia 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

20 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. 20 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Shelter Animals Count — $30,000 · AnimalsShelter Animals CountTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $20,259 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTYFRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $15,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INCLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $15,000 · AnimalsLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INCSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INCANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC — $10,724 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $10,259 · AnimalsFriends of Front Street Shelter — $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $10,000 · AnimalsRUFF HAVEN — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF YUMA — $10,000 · AnimalsFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $10,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 · AnimalsTELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELT — $10,000 · AnimalsAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc — $10,000 · Animals+2 more — $10,518 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC — $15,000 · OtherANIMAL CAR…FRIENDS OF THE KERN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF…
Animals$236,760Other$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $20,259 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC — $10,724 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $10,259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Front Street Shelter — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUFF HAVEN — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF YUMA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter — $5,259 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $5,259 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The American Society …Petsmart Charities IncThe Duffield Family F…Pedigree FoundationBest Friends Animal S…Petco LoveHumane World for Anim…Greater Good CharitiesBanfield FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…Mightycause Charitabl…Enterprise Holdings F…
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsNY25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pedigree Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Humane World for Animals Inc · Greater Good Charities · Banfield Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Society Silicon Valley 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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