· Private foundation
Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSPCA-ANGELL | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY & SHELTER SOUTHCOAST | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA | $2,000 |
| ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL ADVOCATES INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -81% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 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 ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP. Bigger dots raise more.
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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