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Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$870k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Animals$15MHuman Services$310kHealth$290kRecreation & Sports$200kEnvironment$176kCommunity Improvement$50kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$45kYouth Development$20kOther$6.6M
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $515k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $355k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A Wish for Animals$100,000
Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Tea$85,000
The Pepper Foundation$70,000
Stray Cat Alliance$50,000
FixNation$50,000
Deity Animal Rescue and Foundation$40,000
Great Pyrenees Assn of S Calif$40,000
Love Leo Rescue$35,000
HELP A Home for Every Living Pet$35,000
Eastwood Ranch Foundation$30,000
Kitten Rescue$30,000
Forte Animal Rescue$30,000
Muttly Crew Inc$30,000
Center for Animal Protection and Ed$25,000
Feeding Pets of the Homeless$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The People Concern: $10k → 14%PAWSLA: $75k → 14%PAWSLA: $75k → 14%PAWSLA: $50k → 14%PAWSLA: $15k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $65k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MI
NY
NV
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 108 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

108 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 88 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
70

Total granted

$19M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SC
    STRAY CAT ALLIANCE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +30%
  • RT
    RETURN TO FREEDOM INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +53% · 38% of their budget
  • FI
    FixNation Inc
    5× · 2018–2025 · $830k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • VC
    VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS
    one grant, 2019 · $425k · revenue +17%
  • PF
    PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +130%
  • SN
    SPAY NEUTER PROJECT LA
    one grant, 2019 · $300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
3
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
4
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
5
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
6
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
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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9
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
10
Raskels Rescue
Animals
11
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
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthcare for Homeless Animals and the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr12%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%55%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr12%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
14%
13,161/91,743

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

126 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. 126 of the 185 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.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/126
Grantees still filing
72/126
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $1,460,000 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT ALLIANCELast Chance for Animals — $1,100,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $1,050,000 · AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INCFixNation Inc — $830,000 · AnimalsFixNation IncHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $515,000 · Animals+98 more — $9,864,500 · Animals+98 moreTONY LARUSSA'S ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,025,000 · OtherTONY LARUSSA'S ANIMAL RESCUEIndividual grant recipient — $530,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEA — $305,000 · OtherSPAY NEUTER PROJECT LA — $300,000 · OtherA Wish for Animals — $265,000 · Other+69 more — $4,294,000 · Other+69 morePETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES — $215,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $290,000 · HealthDEITY ANIMAL RESCUE AND FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE NATURE OF WILDWORKS — $106,000 · EnvironmentYGGDRASIL URBAN WILDLIFE RESCUE — $70,000 · EnvironmentBig Sunday — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Animals$14,819,500Other$6,719,000Human Services$310,000Health$290,000Recreation & Sports$200,000Environment$176,000Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $1,460,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $1,100,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $1,050,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetFixNation Inc — $830,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $515,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS — $360,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE — $350,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSAVE A KITTY INC — $335,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetTHE PEPPER FOUNDATION — $305,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetKITTEN RESCUE — $305,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetAll About Equine Animal Rescue Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $290,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetLINDA BLAIR WORLD HEART FOUNDATION — $267,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetACE OF HEARTS — $263,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetForte Animal Rescue — $237,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetWags and Walks — $230,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE RESCUE TRAIN — $230,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSANTE DOR FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES — $215,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetPet Rescue of Unwanted Dogs PROUD — $207,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetDEITY ANIMAL RESCUE AND FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetGREAT PYRENEES ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $185,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetTHE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT — $180,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS — $170,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM — $160,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFERAL CAT CARETAKERS COALITION — $160,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetBOUND ANGELS — $160,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetCALIFORNIA COASTAL HORSE RESCUE — $155,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHEART HEALTHCARE AND EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM — $150,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetOLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $145,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetBasic Needs Foundation Inc — $141,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetAnimals Rule Placement Foundation — $139,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetMARLEY'S PIT STOP RESCUE INC — $135,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS — $130,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brittany Foundation Animal Sanctuary — $121,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetLOVELEO RESCUE — $120,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetCATS AT THE STUDIOS INC — $109,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetTHE NATURE OF WILDWORKS — $106,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetA DOG'S LIFE RESCUE INC — $104,000 over 4y, 85% of budgetNEW LIFE ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $102,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE — $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPAW WORKS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWILDCARE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…The Michelson Found A…Pedigree FoundationGreater Good CharitiesThe Duffield Family F…Community Outreach Pr…The Diane Warren Foun…Laffintr of John & Ma…Best Friends Animal S…On Shore FoundationThe American Society …The Winnick Family Fo…
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA97.8× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Pedigree Foundation · Greater Good Charities · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Community Outreach Promoting Emergency Preparedness · The Diane Warren Foundation · Laffintr of John & Maria Tuw Main · Best Friends Animal Society · On Shore Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc

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 Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 185 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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