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Massachusetts Animal Coalition Inc

Providing the massachusetts animal welfare community with informational opportunities for professional growth, collaboration, and networking to improve the welfare of companion animals in our state.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Animals$584kPublic Benefit$7k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $109,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $170,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARL - BOSTON$25,000
MSPCA$25,000
HOUSE RABBIT NETWORK$15,000
DAKIN ANIMAL SHELTER$12,500
CUMMINGS SCHOOL VET MED AT TUFTS$12,000
LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY$7,500
FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY$6,600
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SHELTER INC$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Animal Rescue League of Boston: $31k → 7%House Rabbit Network: $27k → 8%MRFRS: $12k → 10%Worcester Animal Rescue League: $10k → 11%The Humane Coalition for Animals: $6k → 11%Berkshire Humaine Society: $22k → 12%FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY: $7k → 14%Animal Rescue League of Boston: $8k → 16%Dakin Humane Society: $30k → 17%Town of Westport: $7k → 9%Animal Rescue League of Boston: $26k → 7%House Rabbit Network: $9k → 8%MRFRS: $7k → 10%Second Chance Animal Services: $13k → 11%Fall River Animal Control: $6k → 11%Berkshire Humane Society: $18k → 12%Friends of Franklin Dog Shelter: $6k → 14%MSPCA: $49k → 16%Dakin Humane Society: $13k → 17%ARL - BOSTON: $25k → 7%House Rabbit Network: $8k → 8%Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society: $7k → 10%Second Chance Animal Shelter: $12k → 11%Berkshire Humane Society: $11k → 12%MSPCA: $33k → 16%LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $8k → 8%Northeast Animal Shelter: $8k → 10%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $6k → 11%MSPCA: $25k → 16%Charles River Alleycats: $8k → 8%Cummings School of Vet Medicine: $16k → 11%MSPCA: $25k → 16%HOUSE RABBIT NETWORK: $15k → 8%CUMMINGS SCHOOL VET MED AT TUFTS: $12k → 11%Charles River AlleyCats: $16k → 16%Cummings School of Vet Medicine: $10k → 11%Ahimsa Haven Animal Rescue: $7k → 11%North Quabbin Animal Control: $6k → 11%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$509k · 10 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$509k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationOther

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 ANIMALS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $132k · revenue +77%
  • DP
    DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +42%
  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
    3× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -25%
  • NA
    NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • WB
    WESTPORT BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $7k

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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
3
Animal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast

Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…

Animals
4
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
5
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
6
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
7
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
8
Animal Rescue Veterinary Services

To end companion animal over-population by offering quality, low cost spay and neuter services to the public and area animal shelters and provide free spay and neuter services monthly for trapped feral and stray cats.

Animals
9
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
10
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…

Animals
11
Bristol Humane Society Inc

As a nonprofit organization, the mission of bristol humane society is to provide accessible resources to ensure that animals are healthy and happy, and the bond between pets and their families is strengthened, allowing every animal to…

Animals
12
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Rescue League of Boston and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Tufts College. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $131,500 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $71,000 · AnimalsDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INCANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $65,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTONHOUSE RABBIT NETWORK INC — $59,030 · AnimalsHOUSE RABBIT NETWORK INCBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $50,800 · AnimalsBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INCSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $31,250 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INCMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC — $26,000 · AnimalsCHARLES RIVER ALLEYCATS INCORPORATED — $23,500 · Animals+5 more — $42,920 · Animals+5 moreARL - BOSTON — $25,000 · OtherARL - BOS…NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $7,500 · OtherNORTHEAST…WESTPORT BOARD OF EDUCATION — $7,000 · OtherWESTPORT …ATHOL FIRE DEPARTMENT — $6,000 · OtherATHOL FIR…Fall River Animal Control — $6,000 · OtherFall Rive…Trustees of Tufts College — $37,650 · Education
Animals$501,500Other$51,500Education$37,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $131,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $71,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $65,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE RABBIT NETWORK INC — $59,030 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $50,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $37,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $31,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ALLEYCATS INCORPORATED — $23,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL DOG SHELTER INC — $12,600 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAHIMSA HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $6,820 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

Shirley Shattuck Wind…Red Acre Farm Inc Dba…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Cannata Family Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Analog Devices Founda…Petsmart Charities IncVerizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable TrustMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable Trust · Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Cannata Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Massachusetts Animal Coalition Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
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 Massachusetts Animal Coalition Inc?

Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Animal Coalition Inc 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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $170k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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