· Public charity
Mercy for Animals Inc
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $232,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,018,515 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,785,715 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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A WELL-FED WORLD | $64,800 |
| BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC | $30,600 |
| GRASSROOTS ARTISTS MOVEMENT | $20,600 |
| BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND | $20,600 |
| PLANT THE POWER | $20,600 |
| VEGGIE MIJAS | $20,600 |
| RETHINK YOUR FOOD INC | $20,000 |
| APEX ADVOCACY | $20,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $6.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: OPERATING EXPENSES
Stated purpose: OPERATING EXPENSES
Stated purpose: OPERATING EXPENSES
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AWA Well-Fed World5× · 2020–2024 · $453k · revenue +3%
- GAGRASSROOTS ARTISTS MOVEMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $116k
- BFBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $81k · revenue -20%
Funded once
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -17%- BHBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue ×233
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
To grow the local food supply by supporting farmers, preparing food plants for climate change and increasing health giving food availability for people in need
The mission of Food & Planet is to empower nutrition professionals to advance sustainable food systems through our programs and resources. Over the past year, we have engaged with partners to develop several key resources and learning…
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
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.
To educate the public about the positive health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming.
FarmSTAND uses legal advocacy and public education to address the environmental, labor, and animal welfare impacts of industrial agriculture and to support the viability of small family farmers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Food Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Relations United. 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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 13% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds APEX ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINK YOUR FOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds Operation Spring Plant ↗
- Who funds HIP HOP IS GREEN ↗
- Who funds LET LOVE LIVE ↗
- Who funds Northwest Animal Rights Network ↗
- Who funds SUPRSEED Inc ↗
- Who funds STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE US INC ↗
- Who funds A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Plantation Park Heights Urban Farming ↗
- Who funds FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Impactassetsinc · A Well-Fed World · Karuna Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Mercy for Animals 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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