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Margaret T Petrie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$924k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$2.2MFood & Nutrition$32kReligion$5kOther$604k
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $830k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE$50,000
ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM$45,000
WARREN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$45,000
PAWS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY (PAWS RC)$35,000
CAROLINA POODLE RESCUE$35,000
PAWS OF HERTFORD COUNTY$35,000
SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS$35,000
PAWS FOR LIFE NC$30,000
CITY OF BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES DEPT$30,000
WILMINGTON ANIMAL CENTRIX$30,000
BEYOND FENCES$30,000
SPARKLE CAT RESCUE$25,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC$25,000
FERAL CAT ASSSISTANCE PROGRAM$25,000
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS$25,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAROLINA POODLE RESCUE: $35k → 17%CHATHAM ANIMAL RESCUE AND EDUCATION: $21k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE STOKES SHELTER INC: $24k → 11%PAWS FOR LIFE NC: $30k → 11%ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $45k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC: $75k → 12%SPARKLE CAT RESCUE: $25k → 13%PAWS PRAYERS & PROMISES: $24k → 13%INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE: $50k → 13%MONTGOMERY COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $20k → 16%RUTHERFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $25k → 18%HUMANE SOCIETY OF EASTERN CAROLINA: $25k → 20%WARREN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $45k → 21%PAWS OF HERTFORD COUNTY: $35k → 23%BLIND CAT RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $25k → 26%CAROLINA POODLE RESCUE: $30k → 17%ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $45k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC: $50k → 12%CITY OF BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES DEPT: $30k → 13%INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE: $44k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BEAUFORT: $25k → 18%WARREN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $30k → 21%PAWS OF HERTFORD CO: $30k → 23%BLIND CAT RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $25k → 26%SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $45k → 8%ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $41k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC: $50k → 12%CITY OF BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES DEPT: $28k → 13%INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE: $35k → 13%PAWS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY (PAWS RC): $35k → 16%BLIND CAT RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $25k → 26%SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $45k → 8%ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $41k → 11%WILMINGTON ANIMAL CENTRIX: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC: $30k → 12%CITY OF BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES DEPT: $25k → 13%INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE: $30k → 13%PAWS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY (PAWS RC): $25k → 16%BLIND CAT RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $25k → 26%SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $35k → 8%ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $40k → 11%BLIND CAT RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $25k → 26%SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $35k → 8%SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS: $25k → 8%SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION INC: $30k → 8%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS: $25k → 8%SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS: $25k → 8%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.

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 38 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
2

Total granted

$2.6M
$32k

Still filing today

68%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

  • THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $212k · revenue +54%
  • SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +13%
  • Independent Animal Rescue Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $174k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • PO
    PAWS OF HERTFORD CO
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • PP
    PEARLS PRESERVE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

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
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
2
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
3
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…

Animals
4
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
6
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
7
Pisgah Animal Welfare Society Inc
Animals
8
Promoting Animal Welfare in North Carolina

Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…

Animals
9
Peggys Paws

Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area

Animals
10
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
11
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
12
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rutherford County Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is CATMAN2 Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%12%<5yr17%12%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%38%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr11%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%2%<5yr17%7%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr14%61%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr11%10%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
16%
4,114/25,407

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

38 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. 38 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
20/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM — $212,320 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAMCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC — $205,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INCSAFE HAVEN FOR CATS — $185,000 · AnimalsSAFE HAVEN FOR CATSIndependent Animal Rescue Inc — $174,000 · AnimalsIndependent Animal Rescue IncBEYOND FENCES INC — $135,000 · AnimalsBEYOND FENCES INCBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC — $125,000 · AnimalsBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCCarolina Poodle Rescue — $120,000 · AnimalsCarolina Poodle RescuePAWS FOR LIFE NC — $99,000 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION — $81,350 · AnimalsHAPPY HILLS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · AnimalsWilmington Animal Centrix — $75,000 · Animals+24 more — $763,293 · Animals+24 moreCITY OF BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES DEPT — $110,500 · OtherCITY OF BURLINGTON ANIM…ORANGE COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES — $78,427 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ANIMAL SE…WARREN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER — $75,000 · OtherWARREN COUNTY ANIMAL SH…PAWS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY (PAWS RC) — $60,000 · OtherPAWS OF RUTHERFORD COUN…COMPANION ANIMAL CLINIC FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherCOMPANION ANIMAL CLINIC…JOHNSON COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE — $38,000 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY ANIMAL P…DOGS DESERVE BETTER — $33,000 · OtherDOGS DESERVE BETTERPAWS OF HERTFORD CO — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $27,500 · OtherRUIN CREEK ANIMAL PROTECTION — $25,000 · OtherRUTHERFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $57,000 · Other+5 morePET FOOD PANTRY OF EASTERN NC — $31,500 · Food & NutritionPEAK LAB RESCUE INC — $5,000 · Religion
Animals$2,249,963Other$604,427Food & Nutrition$31,500Religion$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM — $212,320 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC — $205,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOR CATS — $185,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetIndependent Animal Rescue Inc — $174,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetBEYOND FENCES INC — $135,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCarolina Poodle Rescue — $120,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE NC — $99,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION — $81,350 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHAPPY HILLS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetWilmington Animal Centrix — $75,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetThe Humane Society of Granville County — $70,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $60,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetChatham Animal Rescue and Education Inc — $53,890 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Beaufort County — $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFERAL CAT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPAWS PRAYERS & PROMISES — $44,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMIAS MAFIA — $37,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetPAWS OF HERTFORD COUNTY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCAT ANGELS PET ADOPTIONS INC — $31,775 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPET FOOD PANTRY OF EASTERN NC — $31,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCKY MOUNT ANIMALS — $25,950 over 2y, 18% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF EASTERN CAROLINA — $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRUTHERFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSPARKLE CAT RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFriends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc — $24,441 over 1y, 12% of budgetPAWS AND LOVE INC — $23,862 over 2y, 15% of budgetBLACKDOG CLUB INC — $21,375 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHEART OF THE FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCalvin's Paws — $16,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetWindsor Kittens Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPAWS 4 PURPOSE — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPawsitive Shelter Volunteers — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGODBEY CREEK CANINE RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCATMAN2 INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPEAK LAB RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

Duke Energy FoundationPedigree FoundationPetsmart Charities IncThe Duffield Family F…Greater Good CharitiesTwo Mauds IncPaypal Charitable Giv…The Summerlee Foundat…Reynolds American Fou…BISSELL Pet FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Best Friends Animal S…
Duke Energy FoundationNC24.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Two Mauds Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Summerlee Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society

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 Margaret T Petrie Foundation 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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

    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.

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

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