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Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$253kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$315k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Etosha Rescue and Adoption Center$5,000
Providence Animal Center$5,000
The Wildlife Center of Virginia$5,000
Womans Animal Center$5,000
BerkeleyEast Bay Humane Society$5,000
Second Chance Animal Services Inc$5,000
Carolina Boxer Rescue$5,000
Animal Rescue Inc$5,000
Foster Army Animal Rescue$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lowell Humane Society: $3k → 8%Second Chance Animal Services Inc: $5k → 11%Womans Animal Center: $5k → 6%Sam's Hope: $5k → 7%Providence Animal Center: $5k → 10%Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society: $8k → 10%Foster Army Animal Rescue: $3k → 11%K9 Youth Alliance: $5k → 14%North Shore Animal League America Inc: $2k → 6%Etosha Rescue and Adoption Center: $5k → 10%Palm Valley Animal Society: $7k → 27%Defenders of Wildlife: $5k → 14%Carolina Boxer Rescue: $5k → 10%Humane Society of Utah: $5k → 8%Animal Rescue of the Rockies: $5k → 8%Humane Society of Indianapolis: $5k → 16%Path of Hope Rescue: $5k → 12%Wildlife Center f Virginia: $10k → 8%Pets of the Homeless: $3k → 13%Days End Farm Horse Rescue: $5k → 6%Animal Rescue Inc: $5k → 11%Second Chance Animal Services Inc: $5k → 11%Womans Animal Center: $5k → 6%Sam's Hope: $5k → 7%Providence Animal Center: $5k → 10%Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society: $5k → 10%Foster Army Animal Rescue: $3k → 11%Humane Rescue Alliance: $5k → 14%Carolina Boxer Rescue Inc: $5k → 10%The Humane Society of Indianapolis: $5k → 16%Wildlife Center of Virginia: $7k → 8%Pets of the Homeless: $3k → 13%Day End Farm Horse Rescue: $5k → 6%Animal Rescue: $5k → 11%Providence Animal Center: $5k → 10%BerkeleyEast Bay Humane Society: $5k → 10%Foster Army Animal Rescue: $2k → 11%Humane Rescue Alliance: $5k → 14%Spay Neuter Services of Indiana: $4k → 16%The Wildlife Center of Virginia: $5k → 8%Animal Rescue Inc: $5k → 11%BerkeleyEast Bay Humane Society: $5k → 10%The Wildlife Center of Virginia: $5k → 8%Animal Rescue Inc: $5k → 11%Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society: $5k → 10%The Wildlife Center of Virginia: $5k → 8%Animal Rescue Inc: $5k → 11%Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society: $5k → 10%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

WA
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$193k · 13 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$193k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BE
    Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +169%
  • TW
    THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +99%
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PV
    PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +14%
  • FI
    FIDO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
3
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
4
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
5
Pet Rescue Incorporated

Pet rescue inc. is committed to the rescue of abandoned and abused cats and dogs, and uses funds raised to provide veterinary care, neutering and spaying services, food and a home for these animals.

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6
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
7
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
Liberty Humane Society Inc

We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.

Animals
10
Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption

Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.

Animals
11
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
12
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Defenders of Wildlife. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: $33,000 · AnimalsBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley HumaneTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $32,000 · AnimalsTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIAANIMAL RESCUE INC: $25,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE INCDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15,000 · AnimalsDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSFOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE: $12,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $10,000 · AnimalsSAMS HOPE: $10,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · AnimalsWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsCAROLINA BOXER RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · Animals+12 more: $55,104 · Animals+12 moreIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $692 · OtherNSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service Inc: $691 · OtherFIDO INC: $5,000 · EducationK9 YOUTH ALLIANCE: $4,850 · Youth Development
Animals$242,104Other$6,383Education$5,000Youth Development$4,850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $32,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE: $12,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMS HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA BOXER RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATH OF HOPE RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetK9 YOUTH ALLIANCE: $4,850 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA: $4,375 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,729 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Ray Rowe Trust for An…Pedigree FoundationPetsmart Charities IncThe American Society …Banfield FoundationLeslie L Alexander Fo…William E Dean III Ch…Chubb Charitable Foun…Humane World for Anim…Greater Good CharitiesPaypal Charitable Giv…Thornton S Jr and Kat…
Ray Rowe Trust for Animals No TwoMD24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ray Rowe Trust for Animals No Two · Pedigree Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Banfield Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · William E Dean III Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation

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 Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals?

    Find your warmest path to Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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