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North Shore Animal League America Inc

Since 1944, the north shore animal league america's mission has been to save the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, education, medical care, spay/neuter and advocacy.

$30k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$1.5MYouth Development$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$38k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $30,378 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,378 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMALS 24-7$10,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KENO'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY CO JAMES GUILIANI: $15k → 15%The Pet Savers Foundation: $360k → 6%Houston Humane Society: $20k → 8%Friends For Life: $150k → 16%Rescue Life: $40k → 11%Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando: $7k → 13%Humane Society of Broward County: $20k → 13%Operation Paw: $8k → 15%Animals 24-7: $10k → 7%The Pet Savers Foundation: $356k → 6%Pet Haven Rescue: $125k → 11%Animals 24-7: $10k → 7%The Pet Savers Foundation: $200k → 6%Pet Haven Rescue: $100k → 11%ANIMALS 24-7: $10k → 7%Tri-County Animal Rescue: $61k → 11%Animals 24-7: $10k → 7%Big Dog Ranch Rescue: $30k → 11%Animals 24-7: $10k → 7%ANIMALS 24-7: $10k → 7%ANIMALS 24-7: $10k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 3 repeat orgs$510k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$510k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+24%

Still filing today

67%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TP
    THE PET SAVERS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $916k · revenue +74%
  • PH
    Pet Haven Rescue Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $225k · revenue -92% · 62% of their budget
  • A2
    ANIMALS 24-7
    7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • FI
    FYIMS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +13%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +62%
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
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
3
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
6
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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7
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
8
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
9
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
10
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
11
Help Save Pets

Animal welfare

Animals
12
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Broward County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animals 24-7. 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 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. 15 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PET SAVERS FOUNDATION INC: $916,000 · AnimalsTHE PET SAVERS FOUNDATION INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC: $100,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INCANIMALS 24-7: $70,000 · AnimalsTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $60,500 · Animals+9 more: $192,200 · Animals+9 morePet Haven Rescue Inc: $225,000 · OtherPet Haven Rescu…+1 more: $7,500 · OtherFYIMS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentFYIMS INC
Animals$1,338,700Other$232,500Youth Development$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPet Haven Rescue Inc: $225,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetFYIMS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetANIMALS 24-7: $70,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $60,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRESCUE LIFE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND DOG INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKENOS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $15,200 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetA SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 North Shore Animal League America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Shore Animal League America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to North Shore Animal League America 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $74k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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