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Mark and Carol Zemmel Fund for the Human Animal Connection Inc at a glance

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Mark and Carol Zemmel Fund for the Human Animal Connection Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$213k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$180k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$355kPhilanthropy$48kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$6kEducation$1kHousing & Shelter$1kInternational$600Food & Nutrition$500
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION$179,980
REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY$17,688
Individual grant recipient$6,976
CIRCLE OF LOVE FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE$4,000
SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI FOUNDATION$1,500
HUMANE SOCIETY$1,250
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES$523
PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE$500
Individual grant recipient$187
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $600 → 11%FARM SACTUARY: $500 → 9%LOTUS HOUSE: $1k → 12%SPCA INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE: $500 → 13%SOUTHEAST VET: $187 → 6%FAMILY HOUSE: $10k → 11%FLORIDA VET: $7k → 13%100 PLUS ANIMALS RESCUE INC: $13k → 13%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%CLOSET TO CLOSET: $1k → 10%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%THE LAKE DILLON THEATRE COMPANY: $500 → 9%GREATER GOODS CHARITIES: $5k → 9%RED ROOSTER: $343 → 9%BANFIELD: $323 → 9%PETA BACKYARD DOG: $530 → 19%PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE: $500 → 13%SCHOLAR CAREER COACHING: $1k → 11%FLORIDA VET: $508 → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 13%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%GREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $523 → 9%BORN FREE PET SHELTER INC: $34k → 15%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%BORN FREE PET SHELTER INC: $8k → 15%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%AREA STAGE COMPANY: $5k → 15%LOTUS HOUSE: $1k → 15%REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%CASA FAMILIA INC: $1k → 15%MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $180k → 15%MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $45k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $43k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $366 → 15%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $500 → 15%PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION: $200 → 15%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
NY
IA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$342k · 9 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$342k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationHealthOther
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

  • MV
    MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $268k · revenue +38%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +47%
  • PV
    Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • 1P
    100 PLUS ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -78%
  • FH
    FAMILY HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AS
    AREA STAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
3
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
4
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
5
Tri County Humane Society

Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…

Animals
6
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
7
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
8
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
9
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation Inc

Dog Rescue and Shelter in DR

Animals
11
Partners for Pets of South Florida

Pet rescue and rehome abandon pets

Animals
12
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Born Free Pet Shelter Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INC: $268,260 · OtherMIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INCBorn Free Pet Shelter Inc: $41,820 · OtherBorn Free Pet Shelter Inc+12 more: $39,062 · Other+12 moreTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $40,366 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FO…GREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $5,523 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD…COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $2,600 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIV…DOGS IN CRISIS INC: $17,688 · Animals100 PLUS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $13,000 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,308 · Animals+3 more: $2,700 · AnimalsAREA STAGE INC: $5,225 · Arts & CultureLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO: $500 · Arts & CultureSCHOLAR CAREER COACHING INC: $1,055 · EducationCASA FAMILIA INC: $1,045 · Housing & ShelterNATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS: $600 · Health
Other$349,142Philanthropy$48,489Animals$34,696Arts & Culture$5,725Education$1,055Housing & Shelter$1,045Health$600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIAMI VETERINARY FOUNDATION INC: $268,260 over 3y, 23% of budgetBorn Free Pet Shelter Inc: $41,820 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $40,366 over 2y, 0.0% of budget100 PLUS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $5,523 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAREA STAGE INC: $5,225 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLAR CAREER COACHING INC: $1,055 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCASA FAMILIA INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Batchelor Foundat…The Miami Foundation …Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Mark and Carol Zemmel Fund for the Human Animal Connection Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Carol Zemmel Fund for the Human Animal Connection Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Casa Familia Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Area Stage Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Miami Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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