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PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr at a glance

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PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$386k
Granted FY2024still arriving
97
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.4MEnvironment$133kHuman Services$83kHealth$40kCivil Rights$39kPhilanthropy$30kInternational$21kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k87 grants · $250k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $136k
$3,090
Median grant
28
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER$25,142
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$20,002
IRONWOOD PIG SANCTUARY$15,583
NON HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT$12,710
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$12,000
PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE$10,300
THE HUMANE LEAGUE$10,220
HAPI TRAILS HORSE ADOPTION$10,204
FARM SANCTUARY$10,000
ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
ANIMAL OUTLOOK$6,862
COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING$6,786
SPECIES UNITE$6,451
FOUR PAWS INTL$6,180
THE TORTOISE CONSERVANCY INC$6,100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORPHAN ACRES: $1k → 16%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $15k → 14%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $5k → 14%ORPHAN ACRES: $1k → 16%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $5k → 14%ORPHAN ACRES: $1k → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $500 → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $500 → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $500 → 16%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $7k → 17%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $2k → 17%APOPO: $2k → 14%APOPO: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
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ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
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SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 208 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

208 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 146 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208
135

Total granted

$1.7M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +82%
  • AL
    ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +55%
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • HF
    HUMANE FARMING
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • LL
    LITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +39%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
6
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
7
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
8
The Animal Welfare Foundation
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9
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
10
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
11
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
12
Animal Diplomacy

Supporting and assisting with rescue, sheltering, spay/neuter, and rehoming of cats and dogs in needy developing countries. Our current exclusive focus is on Egypt and the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc; the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. 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

172 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 172 of the 377 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
170/172
Grantees still filing
123/172
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $103,183 · AnimalsTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATIONANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $63,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INCMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $52,977 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $48,225 · AnimalsAsia Wild: $43,056 · AnimalsAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $37,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $32,000 · Animals+74 more: $554,403 · Animals+74 moreVETPAW INC: $57,165 · OtherVETPAW INCOSCAR'S PLACE ADOPTION CENTER: $38,727 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $33,500 · OtherHAPI TRAILS HORSE RESCUE: $26,060 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+93 more: $568,672 · Other+93 moreOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $13,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $8,204 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,553 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Network: $7,180 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,020 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $6,130 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,650 · Environment+4 more: $7,550 · EnvironmentPartnership With Native Americans: $20,000 · Human ServicesCompassion in World Farming Inc: $13,772 · Human ServicesORPHAN ACRES INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesAPOPO US INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,002 · PhilanthropyFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5,301 · PhilanthropyLADY FREETHINKER: $6,200 · Civil RightsPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $5,000 · HealthRAINFOREST TRUST: $3,546 · International
Animals$933,844Other$749,124Environment$62,287Human Services$41,272Philanthropy$25,303Civil Rights$6,200Health$5,000International$3,546

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $103,183 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $63,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVETPAW INC: $57,165 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $52,977 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $48,225 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Wild: $43,056 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $32,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $26,135 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNonhuman Rights Project Inc: $25,096 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $21,273 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $19,563 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $16,161 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC): $15,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API: $14,149 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $13,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion in World Farming Inc: $13,772 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $13,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch): $13,544 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $13,311 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,680 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $12,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC: $11,654 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRing Dog Rescue Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $11,065 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC: $11,033 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC: $10,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAnimal Place: $10,016 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $9,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $8,944 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $8,261 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $8,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,553 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $7,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,020 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds VETPAW INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Asia Wild ↗
  • Who funds Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Nonhuman Rights Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
  • Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC) ↗
  • Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Compassion in World Farming Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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.

Bradford Family Found…The Susan and Ford Sc…The Gerald B Shreiber…Surendra and Karen Gu…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Seckinger Foundation …The Patricia Florence…Paula Knickerbocker F…John R Oltman Charita…The J R Stein Family …Bernard Weinberg Foun…Butchkie Foundation I…
Bradford Family FoundationMO71.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradford Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc

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 PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc: 68% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 377 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home