· Private foundation
Justice for Animals Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vegan Outreach | $142,000 |
| Good Food Institute | $100,000 |
| The Humane League | $40,000 |
| Mercy for Animals | $10,000 |
| Tapestry | $8,000 |
| Physicians Com for Responsible Med | $5,000 |
| Lever Foundation | $5,000 |
| Mary T and Frank L Hoffman Found | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $405k · revenue +49%
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +86%
- ECEDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FLFrank L and Mary T Hoffman Foundone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
We pursue bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster just and compassionate vegan living through education and policy advocacy.
Global food partners ("gfp") is an animal protection organization whose mission is to help food businesses meet their cage-free egg commitments and producers implement cage-free best practices.
Food animal concerns trust (fact) promotes the safe and humane production of meat, milk, and eggs. fact envisions that all food-producing animals be raised in a healthy and humane manner so that everyone will have access to safe and…
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PLANTPURE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CREATUREKIND ↗
- Who funds LEVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Compassion in World Farming Inc ↗
- Who funds FAUNALYTICS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Humane America Animal Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Justice for Animals Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Justice for Animals Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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