· Private foundation
Pamela Anderson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 67% of grant dollars ($139k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 33% that went abroad ($70k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 33% of all-years giving ($70k)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 71% of Pamela Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +170% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NDNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE3× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue +170%
- CHCONSERVANCY HORNBY ISLAND2× · 2020–2023 · $8k
- RTRETURN TO FREEDOM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PPPOLARIS PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -11%
- SSSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- PTPRISM THE GIFT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
To protect endangered species.
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.
Advance the conservation of the world's oceans through scientific, research, education and community engagement.
The organization inspires ocean stewardship through animal rescue and rehabilitation, marine mammal research, stem education programs and advocacy for a healthy ocean.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Ocean Voyages Institute ↗
- Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds WAVES FOR WATER INC ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pamela Anderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pamela Anderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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