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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

$7.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$847k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$21MEducation$163kEnvironment$127kOther$361k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $1,167,236 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,498,305 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,331,069 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $236k
  • $250k+1 grant · $847k
$11,236
Median grant
7
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION$846,900
SAVE THE CHIMPS$185,600
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$50,000
TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE$30,000
PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$11,236
NORTHWEST ANIMAL RIGHTS NETWORK$10,500
CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST$10,500
END ANIMAL CRUELTY$10,000
CHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY$7,000
ANIMAL HERO KIDS$5,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KEEPERS OF THE WILD: $15k → 17%FRIENDS OF DXE: $8k → 10%NEW WAVE FOODS INC: $10k → 10%PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $11k → 12%WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION: $20k → 7%OKLAHOMA PRIMATE SANCTUARY: $20k → 10%TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE: $30k → 16%THE FUND FOR ANIMALS: $65k → 14%ANIMAL HERO KIDS: $6k → 11%OUT TO PASTURE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $7k → 8%END ANIMAL CRUELTY: $10k → 12%WILDLIFE SOS: $130k → 8%THE WILD ANIMAL SACTUARY: $70k → 9%PEACEABLE PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC: $30k → 14%JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS: $58k → 9%FERAL CAT SPRAY NEUTER PROJECT: $60k → 9%CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $11k → 11%WHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY: $65k → 12%YAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $165k → 17%CHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY: $7k → 9%VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $9k → 10%FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTEC: $14.8M → 19%CHIMP HAVEN: $8k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES: $100k → 8%TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE: $6k → 16%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $39k → 14%THE WILD ANIMAL SACTUARY: $56k → 9%PEACEABLE PRIMATE SANCTUARY: $8k → 14%JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS: $56k → 9%YAKIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $75k → 17%FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTEC: $3.0M → 19%INSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES: $13k → 8%THE WILD ANIMAL SACTUARY: $40k → 9%JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS: $13k → 9%FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION: $847k → 19%THE WILD ANIMAL SACTUARY: $10k → 9%ANIMAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE: $40k → 9%FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTEC: $50k → 19%NORTHWEST ANIMAL RIGHTS NETWORK: $20k → 9%FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION: $20k → 19%ANIMAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%NORTHWEST ANIMAL RIGHTS NETWORK: $11k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
OR
IN
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $6.3M on the FY2025 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.

South Asia$3.7M · 59% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.3M · 21% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION

East Asia and the Pacific$1.2M · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL PROTECTION

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 11 repeat orgs$799k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$20M
$704k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+21%

Still filing today

91%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $19M · revenue +5% · 50% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $176k · revenue +124%
  • PA
    Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • YH
    YAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue +116%
  • WS
    WILDLIFE SOSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $130k · revenue +120%
  • YC
    YAKIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2023 · $75k

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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc

Catskill animal sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living.

Animals
5
Asia Wild

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,…

Animals
6
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc

We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.

Animals
7
International Exotic Animal Sanctuary

Care for abused, abandoned and illegally obtained large cats and bears.

Animals
8
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
9
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
10
Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals
11
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
12
World Vets

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…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation to Support Animal Protection and the most unlike its peers is Rush University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%45%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%97%20–35yr15%0%35–55yr15%2%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,434

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 33 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)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION — $18,750,536 · AnimalsFOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTIONSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $780,600 · Animals+19 more — $991,396 · AnimalsJUSTICE FOR ANIMALS — $127,133 · OtherYAKIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE — $75,360 · OtherThe Fund for Animals Inc — $65,000 · OtherANIMAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE — $60,000 · Other+4 more — $33,500 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES INC — $112,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL COMPASSION — $91,000 · EnvironmentTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · Environment
Animals$20,522,532Other$360,993Education$162,800Environment$127,000

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 budgetFOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ANIMAL PROTECTION — $18,750,536 over 5y, 50% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $780,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $176,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $172,655 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETY — $165,429 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWILDLIFE SOS — $130,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES INC — $112,800 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSOCIAL COMPASSION — $91,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY — $65,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFeral Cat SpayNeuter Project — $60,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $38,595 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeaceable Primate Sanctuary — $37,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwest Animal Rights Network — $30,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetOklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $11,236 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEnd Animal Cruelty — $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA — $8,981 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of DxE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL SANCTUARY FOR ELEPHANTS — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOUT TO PASTURE ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,000 over 1y, 6.2% 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.

Humane World for Anim…Dj and T FoundationHead & Heart Foundati…The Summerlee Foundat…Give Lively Foundatio…Mightycause Charitabl…The American Anti-Viv…A Kinder World Founda…Seattle FoundationEdwards Lifesciences …The American Society …The Duffield Family F…
Humane World for Animals IncDC25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humane World for Animals Inc · Dj and T Foundation · Head & Heart Foundation Tr 12319 · The Summerlee Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The American Anti-Vivisection Society · A Kinder World Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's 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 People for the Ethical Treatment of 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Institute for in Vitro Sciences Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc?

Find your warmest path to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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