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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.

$59M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$18M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Animals$147MHousing & Shelter$366kHealth$277kEducation$173kPublic Safety & Disaster$141kPublic Benefit$107kEnvironment$56kSocial Science$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 64 grants below total $25,345,516, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,163,838 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,818,322 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $23M
$15,000
Median grant
32
States reached
$497M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Minn-Kota Paaws$100,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $15k → 6%National Spay Alliance Foundation: $6k → 13%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 24%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $10k → 6%Big Cat Rescue Corp: $5k → 13%This Old Horse Inc: $5k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Humane World for Animals Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 49%.

Humane World for Animals Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143M · 186 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186
552

Total granted

$143M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+42%

Still filing today

84%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals International
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +114% · 51% of their budget
  • PC
    PROJECT CHIMPS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +129% · 47% of their budget
  • HW
    Humane World Action Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +21% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • WO
    WINGS OF RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $757k · revenue -39%
  • DD
    Doris Day Animal League
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -54%
  • SA
    SIDEWALK ANGELS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -16% · 32% of their budget
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
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
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
Pound Pets Inc

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

Animals
4
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
5
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
10
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission Inc
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Humane Society of Richland Wilkin Co

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society; 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.
05the grantee network

735 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. 735 of the 764 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
293
Early backer (in before they grew)
697/735
Grantees still filing
514/735
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Humane World for Animals International: $52,101,315 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals InternationalPROJECT CHIMPS: $16,053,500 · AnimalsPROJECT CHIMPSHumane World Action Fund: $13,664,982 · AnimalsHumane World Action FundSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $11,157,331 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INCSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $4,411,370 · Animals+133 more: $14,732,445 · Animals+133 moreThe Fund for Animals Inc: $20,561,769 · OtherThe Fund for Animals IncHumane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc: $5,363,855 · OtherHumane Society Veterinary…Prevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committee: $1,738,327 · Other+44 more: $5,489,048 · Other+44 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $244,900 · EducationCornell University: $240,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $71,168 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · EducationSIDEWALK ANGELS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MICHELSON FOUND ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY: $103,000 · Youth DevelopmentYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $25,000 · EnvironmentHUMANE EDUCATION ADVOCATES REACHING TEACHERS: $22,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentTHUNDER BASIN GRASSLANDS PRAIRIE ECOSYSTEM ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · Environment
Animals$112,120,943Other$33,152,999Education$761,068Philanthropy$165,000Human Services$130,000Youth Development$103,000Environment$86,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane World for Animals International: $52,101,315 over 8y, 51% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc: $20,561,769 over 7y, 49% of budgetPROJECT CHIMPS: $16,053,500 over 8y, 47% of budgetHumane World Action Fund: $13,664,982 over 8y, 48% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $11,157,331 over 4y, 82% of budgetHumane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc: $5,363,855 over 8y, 93% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $4,411,370 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetPrevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committee: $1,738,327 over 3y, 97% of budgetBETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $931,018 over 7y, 98% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $863,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $756,800 over 1y, 19% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $739,377 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $702,550 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMINN-KOTA PAAWS PEOPLE ADVOCATING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $673,935 over 8y, 24% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $641,236 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $590,750 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPEACEFUL ANIMAL ADOPTION SHLTR INC: $532,256 over 4y, 37% of budgetYAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $491,250 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetVIDAS: $459,100 over 3y, 64% of budgetAUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $456,495 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance: $436,100 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $419,834 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetALTUS ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $393,165 over 6y, 66% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $344,495 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $303,525 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING PAWS ACROSS BORDERS: $294,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetState Humane Association of CA California Animal Welfare Assoc: $283,720 over 2y, 32% of budgetDoris Day Animal League: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $244,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAAC-PEOPLE ASSISTING ANIMAL CONTROL: $227,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetMIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INC: $214,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetShelter Animals Count: $204,310 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetAlliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs: $190,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetALASKA NATIVE RURAL VETERINARY INC: $182,750 over 2y, 76% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFLEET OF ANGELS: $165,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetOur Big Fat Caribbean Rescue Inc: $163,500 over 3y, 69% of budgetSIDEWALK ANGELS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetThe Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust: $148,472 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS: $145,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $136,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA: $133,457 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE: $111,975 over 1y, 27% of budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $108,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $105,252 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVeterinarians for Puerto Rico Corp: $105,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

The American Society …Petco LoveThe Duffield Family F…Greater Good CharitiesBest Friends Animal S…Banfield FoundationPetsmart Charities IncBISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…The Michelson Found A…Vca Charities
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsNY168.7× affinity210 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 764 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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