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International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc

IFAWs strategy focuses on improving the welfare of individual animals and the conservation status of wildlife populations in priority habitats through on-the-ground efforts community engagement and global advocacy.

$7.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$280k
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 2025.

Environment$1.0MAnimals$970kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$35kCommunity Improvement$35kScience & Tech$20kArts & Culture$15kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $535,291, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,179,818 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,644,527 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maritime Information Systems$279,800
Wildlife Investigators Training Alliance$110,116
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation$37,000
Global Rewilding Alliance$27,000
Busters Paw Prints$16,375
Viva Rescue$15,000
Turtle survival alliance$10,000
Pasadena Humane Society$10,000
Alaqua Animal Refuge$10,000
Nature Conservancy$10,000
Abraham Foundation$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE HARBOR: $25k → 8%Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D B A Zoo New England: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $50k → 10%LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS BIG CAT SA: $15k → 11%Viva Rescue: $15k → 11%Busters Paw Prints: $16k → 15%COMPANION ANIMAL OUTREACH OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $14k → 14%TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE: $17k → 16%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $54k → 14%YOUTH FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $50k → 11%PEACE RIVER REFUGE AND RANCH INC: $13k → 16%PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE (PASA): $12k → 12%THIRD MILLENIUM FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%Tybee Island Marine Science Center: $45k → 16%THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY TWAS: $19k → 9%Global Rewilding Alliance: $27k → 12%HELP MALAWI: $35k → 17%Greater Good Charities: $20k → 9%SMELTS Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society: $30k → 11%CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND: $21k → 9%JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL AND CAT CONSERVATION SUMMIT: $20k → 5%Louisiana Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals: $20k → 23%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $88k → 8%PEGAGUS FOUNDATION dba Cape Wildlife Center: $20k → 8%CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $25k → 10%NATIVE AMERICA HUMANE SOCIETY: $12k → 14%Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $100k → 17%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THIRD MILLENIUM FOUNDATION: $12k → 20%FAR EAST WHALE RESEARCH LLC: $40k → 9%Global Impact: $15k → 9%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $67k → 8%Maritime Information Systems: $280k → 8%CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $25k → 10%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $12k → 14%FAR EAST WHALE RESEARCH LLC: $40k → 9%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $52k → 8%National Marine Life Center inc: $25k → 8%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FAR EAST WHALE RESEARCH LLC: $40k → 9%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $49k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%The Ocean Foundation: $13k → 14%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $37k → 8%Wildlife Investigators Training Alliance: $110k → 14%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $22k → 8%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $22k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $6.5M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$5.4M · 82% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Conservation · Rescue

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$511k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Conservation & Rescue

East Asia and the Pacific$317k · 5% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Conservation · Rescue

South Asia$121k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Conservation · Rescue

North America (Canada and Mexico)$104k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Conservation & Rescue · Conservation

Middle East and North Africa$59k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Rescue · Conservation

Central America and the Caribbean$18k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Rescue

South America$15k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Rescue

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$894k · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
42

Total granted

$894k
$719k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+29%

Still filing today

78%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +196%
  • The Ocean Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +87%
  • CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +247%

Funded once

  • WO
    WINGS OF RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue +17%
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TI
    TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
4
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
The Animal Welfare Foundation
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8
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
9
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
10
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
11
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
12
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mountain View Animal Rescue. 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 63 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maritime Information Systems: $279,800 · OtherMaritime Information SystemsFAR EAST WHALE RESEARCH LLC: $120,000 · OtherFAR EAST WHALE RESEARCH LLCWILDLIFE INVESTIGATORS TRAINING ALLIANCE INC: $110,116 · OtherWILDLIFE INVESTIGATORS TRAINING ALLI…YOUTH FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $50,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONHELP MALAWI: $35,003 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · Other+7 more: $80,533 · Other+7 moreNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $390,376 · EnvironmentNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDA…The Ocean Foundation: $116,189 · EnvironmentThe Ocean FoundationCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $115,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER …+1 more: $17,000 · EnvironmentWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $105,000 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INCNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $54,000 · AnimalsNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTE…SMELTS SEA MAMMAL EDUCATION LEARNING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY: $30,000 · AnimalsSMELTS SEA MAMMAL EDUCATION…Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs: $30,000 · AnimalsAlliance for Contraception …GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $21,600 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fund: $20,550 · AnimalsLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $19,050 · Animals+26 more: $248,407 · Animals+26 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe Abraham Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON WILD: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHIRD MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION: $31,500 · Science & TechFRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE HARBOR INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGlobal Impact: $15,000 · International
Other$732,452Environment$638,565Animals$548,607Philanthropy$150,000Arts & Culture$105,000Science & Tech$31,500Community Improvement$25,000International$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $390,376 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $116,189 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $115,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $105,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $54,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHELP MALAWI: $35,003 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHIRD MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 2y, 69% of budgetSMELTS SEA MAMMAL EDUCATION LEARNING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs: $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BARNSTABLE HARBOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $21,600 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $20,550 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON WILD: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $19,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Impact: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPEACE RIVER REFUGE & RANCH INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICA HUMANE SOCIEY: $12,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNA KOA MANU CONSERVATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII PET NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJameson Animal Rescue Ranch: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINSYNC EXOTIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $9,798 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWILDCARE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $6,431 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE: $6,230 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATNIP FOUNDATION DBA BIG SKY CARES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,948 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASAR TRAINING AND RESPONSE: $5,500 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

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.

Humane World for Anim…Greater Good CharitiesThornton S Jr and Kat…Petco LoveThe Summerlee Foundat…Petsmart Charities IncThe American Society …Gordon E and Betty I …Ahimsa FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Tiger Sanctuaries IncShell USA Company Fou…
Humane World for Animals IncDC29.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humane World for Animals Inc · Greater Good Charities · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Petco Love · The Summerlee Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Ahimsa Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Tiger Sanctuaries Inc · Shell USA Company 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 International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
  • Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc: 68% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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