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Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSPCA-ANGELL | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY & SHELTER SOUTHCOAST | $2,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL ADVOCATES INC | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of your 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.
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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against -81% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +49%- NENEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +42%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HFHUMANE FARMING ACTION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -81%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- CSCUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 provide, promote, and advance humane protection, care and treatment of animals thru education of the public and the operation of an animal shelter which cares for, spays and neuters, and places homeless pets in permanent homes.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Helping pets and the people that care for them.
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Salem animal rescue league is a non profit organization whose goal is to find permanent, loving homes for the abondoned and unwanted animals in salem, nh and surrounding towns. to also provide low cost spay and neuter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Farming Association and the most unlike its peers is Humane Farming Action Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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
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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ACTION FUND ↗
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.
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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 Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% 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.
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