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Project Animalaid

Our mission is to collect donated, either new or used, veterinary/medical equipment, veterinary based technology and veterinary/medical supplies and distribute them to veterinarians working under the umbrella of nonprofit/non-governmental organizations whose missions are to improve the health and welfare of animals.

$253k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $166,148 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,603 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,455 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$6,643
Median grant
7
States reached
$641k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS DONATIONS UNDER 5000$95,533
LEECH LAKE LEGACY$15,962
GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION$14,380
TULSA SPCA$10,914
LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER$6,643
VETERINARY INITIATIVES FOR ENDANGER$5,918
MAZIE'S MISSION$5,885
KITTEN KRAZY$5,767
NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS$5,146
02The need
02

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 (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEECH LAKE LEGACY: $16k → 14%VETERINARY INITIATIVES FOR ENDANGER: $6k → 10%LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER: $7k → 10%MAZIE'S MISSION: $6k → 8%TULSA SPCA: $11k → 15%NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $5k → 11%VARIOUS DONATIONS UNDER 5000: $96k → 12%KITTEN KRAZY: $6k → 7%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.

Grants abroad, by region — $90k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$44k · 48% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: IMPROVE ANIMALS

South Asia$20k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: IMPROVE ANIMALS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$12k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: IMPROVE ANIMALS

South America$9k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: IMPROVE ANIMALS

Central America and the Caribbean$6k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: IMPROVE ANIMALS

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 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
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
2
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals
3
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
4
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
5
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
6
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
7
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

8
Okanogan Regional Humane

To significantly reduce the overpopulation of cats and dogs in the Okanogan Region by offering affordable/free spay & neuter programs, emergency vet care and partner with no kill rescues.

Animals
9
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
10
Harmony Animal Rescue Clinic

Helping animal rescue organizations save more lives by providing timely, low-cost veterinary care is the mission of harmony animal rescue clinic.

Animals
11
Ellas Feline Rescue Mission

To rescue, rehabilitate, provide veterinary care, and rehome homeless cats.

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jj's Helping Paws and the most unlike its peers is Dazzle Africa. 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 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%25%5–10yr21%45%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%63%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr12%0%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,394

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.

03the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS DONATIONS UNDER 5000 — $95,533 · OtherVARIOUS DONATIONS UNDER 5000VETERINARY INITIATIVES FOR ENDANGER — $5,918 · OtherVETERINARY INITIATIVES FOR ENDANGERLeech Lake Legacy — $15,962 · AnimalsLeech Lake LegacyGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $14,380 · AnimalsGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTERTulsa SPCA — $10,914 · AnimalsTulsa SPCALockwood Animal Rescue Center — $6,643 · AnimalsLockwood Animal Rescue CenterMAZIE'S MISSION — $5,885 · AnimalsMAZIE'S MISSIONNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS — $5,146 · AnimalsNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALSKitten Krazy Inc — $5,767 · Arts & Culture
Other$101,451Animals$58,930Arts & Culture$5,767

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLeech Lake Legacy — $15,962 over 1y, 11% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $14,380 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTulsa SPCA — $10,914 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLockwood Animal Rescue Center — $6,643 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMAZIE'S MISSION — $5,885 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKitten Krazy Inc — $5,767 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS — $5,146 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

Greater Good CharitiesWA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Petco Love · Animal Assistance Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · BISSELL Pet Foundation · 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 Project Animalaid 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Project Animalaid?

    Find your warmest path to Project Animalaid 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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $197k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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