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Love Animals

Love Animals is a crowdfunding website that helps animal welfare and wildlife conservation non-profits connect with micro-donors to raise money for critically needed projects.

$190k
Granted FY2017
9
Grants FY2017
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $85,775, the rows itemized in this filing. The $189,973 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,198 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 · FY2017

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$8,810
Median grant
7
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wildlife Rescue Inc$19,515
Rescue City Inc$16,296
Humane Society of South Platte$11,136
Silicon Valley Pet Project$9,021
Cat Care Society$8,810
Paws Shelter$5,616
Animal Protection of NM Equine$5,279
Animal Aid Inc$5,064
Golden Retriever Senior Rescue$5,038
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Golden Retriever Senior Rescue: $5k → 8%Silicon Valley Pet Project: $9k → 8%Rescue City Inc: $16k → 20%Paws Shelter: $6k → 10%Wildlife Rescue Inc: $20k → 10%Animal Aid Inc: $5k → 13%Cat Care Society: $9k → 7%Humane Society of South Platte: $11k → 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.
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.
03Its 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
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
2
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
3
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
4
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
5
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
6
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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7
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
8
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
9
Pet Rescue Alliance Inc

Rescue animals from shelter

Animals
10
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
11
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
12
Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal Protection New Mexico. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Austin Wildlife Rescue: $19,515 · AnimalsAustin Wildlife RescueRESCUE CITY INC: $16,296 · AnimalsRESCUE CITY INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $11,136 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INCSILICON VALLEY PET PROJECT: $9,021 · AnimalsSILICON VALLEY PET PROJECTCAT CARE SOCIETY: $8,810 · AnimalsCAT CARE SOCIETYThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $5,616 · AnimalsThe Public For Animal Welfare IncANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO: $5,279 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICOANIMAL AID INC: $5,064 · AnimalsANIMAL AID INCGOLDEN RETRIEVER SENIOR RESCUE SANCTUARY AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $5,038 · Other
Animals$80,737Other$5,038

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue: $19,515 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRESCUE CITY INC: $16,296 over 1y, 27% of budgetSILICON VALLEY PET PROJECT: $9,021 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY: $8,810 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $5,616 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO: $5,279 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC11× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Love Animals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Love Animals. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Love Animals?

    Find your warmest path to Love Animals through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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