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Pets for the Elderly Foundation

The foundation helps pay the fees to participating animal shelters throughout the united states for senior citizens (age 60 and over) who adopt a companion dog or cat from a participating shelter - including pre-adoption veterinary exams and spay/neuter, if part of the adoption fee.

$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$2.0M
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $371,487 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $424,795 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,308 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $273k
$10,110
Median grant
23
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY CHICAGO$34,225
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$18,980
TOLEDO AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$18,950
BANNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INC$18,800
KALAMAZOO HUMANE SOCIETY$16,635
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY$16,465
DONA ANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$16,000
HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS$15,718
MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY$15,500
YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY$14,700
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION$13,980
GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY$11,600
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$10,621
HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY$10,375
PAWS CHICAGO$10,300
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Northeast Ohio SPCA: $8k → 12%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

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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.
$1.9M · 36 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
15

Total granted

$1.9M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • YH
    YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +52%
  • GH
    GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +35%
  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PC
    Pet Cottage Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +163%
  • NH
    NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +65%

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
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
2
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
4
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
5
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
6
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…

Education
7
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
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The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
10
Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers Pc

Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.

Community Improvement
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Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
12
North Bay Animal Services
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co and the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%56%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%61%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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

56 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. 56 of the 58 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)
56/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY — $115,080 · AnimalsYAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETYGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $109,226 · AnimalsGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCAOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $107,204 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY — $104,026 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTYTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $98,130 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATIONIdaho Humane Society Inc — $98,016 · AnimalsTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY — $89,121 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO — $70,550 · AnimalsKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS — $68,528 · AnimalsThe Anti-Cruelty Society — $67,065 · AnimalsDONA ANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $66,482 · Animals+39 more — $846,454 · Animals+39 moreBROOKHAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $56,350 · OtherCITY OF ST JOSEPH — $49,904 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY — $20,100 · OtherANIMAL SHELTER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INC — $8,850 · OtherALEXANDRIA ZOOLOGICAL PARK — $7,750 · OtherPETCO LOVE — $36,688 · PhilanthropyNational Mill Dog Rescue — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHEAST OHIO SPCA INC — $8,150 · Human Services
Animals$1,839,882Other$142,954Philanthropy$36,688Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$8,150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY — $115,080 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $109,226 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $107,204 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY — $104,026 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $98,130 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc — $98,016 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY — $89,121 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $70,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS — $68,528 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society — $67,065 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDONA ANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $66,482 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $57,973 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKHAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $56,350 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $55,545 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBANNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY — $54,135 over 6y, 11% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO — $51,753 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $50,382 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $47,362 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $45,987 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $41,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc — $38,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPETCO LOVE — $36,688 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $32,648 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $29,350 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $27,550 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $24,686 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER OF ST JOSEPH INC — $22,635 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY — $20,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA CRUZ HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $18,975 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,605 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEASY STREET ANIMAL SHELTER — $15,800 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS — $15,718 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE — $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,185 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS — $11,230 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC — $10,375 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPet Cottage Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY — $9,035 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INC — $8,850 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $8,850 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARE HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO SPCA INC — $8,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncPetco LoveThe American Society …Best Friends Animal S…Greater Good CharitiesBISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationHumane World for Anim…The Grey Muzzle Organ…Banfield FoundationSimple Generosity Fou…
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA45.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Best Friends Animal Society · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Grey Muzzle Organization · Banfield Foundation · Simple Generosity Foundation

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 Pets for the Elderly 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 · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
  • Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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How do I get to Pets for the Elderly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pets for the Elderly Foundation 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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