· Public charity
Humane World for Animals Inc
Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $25,345,516 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $59,163,838 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,818,322 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Humane World for Animals International FKA Humane Society International | $17,882,265 |
| Project Chimps Inc | $2,500,000 |
| Humane World Action Fund fka Humane Society Legislative Fund | $2,100,000 |
| Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc | $264,681 |
| Shoshone-Paiute Tribes | $215,000 |
| The Blackfeet Tribe of The Blackfeet Nation | $192,493 |
| Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe | $190,000 |
| Bethel Friends of Canines | $176,818 |
| Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians | $150,000 |
| Seattle Humane | $150,000 |
| State Humane Association of California dba California Animal Welfare Associ | $141,860 |
| Quinault Indian Nation | $125,000 |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $100,551 |
| Friends of The Shelter dba Better Together Animal Alliance | $100,000 |
| Fleet of Angels | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Humane World for Animals Inc’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, 62% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 49% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
186 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 146 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k 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
- HWHumane World for Animals International8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +114% · 51% of their budget
- PCPROJECT CHIMPS8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +129% · 47% of their budget
- HWHumane World Action Fund8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +21% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- WOWINGS OF RESCUE INCone grant, 2017 · $757k · revenue -39%
- DDDoris Day Animal Leagueone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -54%
- SASIDEWALK ANGELS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +83% · 32% of their budget
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.
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare
To help rescue unwanted pets
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is The Stotsenberg Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
734 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. 734 of the 764 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds The Fund for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHIMPS ↗
- Who funds Humane World Action Fund ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committee ↗
- Who funds BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MINN-KOTA PAAWS PEOPLE ADVOCATING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL ANIMAL ADOPTION SHLTR INC ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIDAS ↗
- Who funds AUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALTUS ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS ACROSS BORDERS ↗
- Who funds State Humane Association of CA California Animal Welfare Assoc ↗
- Who funds Doris Day Animal League ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PAAC-PEOPLE ASSISTING ANIMAL CONTROL ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shelter Animals Count ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs ↗
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 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · Banfield Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Vca Charities
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 World for Animals Inc 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- People for Animals Inc — 1% 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.