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Regina A Sondej & Salvatore D Cuccia Animal FoundationInc at a glance

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Regina A Sondej & Salvatore D Cuccia Animal FoundationInc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$54kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,025
Median grant
6
States reached
$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wild WhiskersInc$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
IFAW$2,113
Keepers of the Wild$1,069
Defenders of Wildlife$1,025
World Animal Protection$1,000
Wild Animal Santuary$1,000
Animal Aid Inc$530
Duck Haven$300
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Keepers of the Wild: $1k → 17%IFAW: $9k → 8%International Animal RescueOrg: $5k → 11%World Animal Protection: $1k → 17%Defenders of Wildlife: $1k → 14%Wild WhiskersInc: $10k → 11%Duck Haven: $300 → 13%Wild Animal Santuary: $2k → 9%Greater Good Charities: $1k → 9%IFAW: $8k → 8%International Animal RescueOrg: $1k → 11%World Animal Protection: $1k → 17%Defenders of Wildlife: $1k → 14%Animal Aid Inc: $2k → 13%Wild Animal Santuary: $1k → 9%IFAW: $4k → 8%International Animal RescueOrg: $1k → 11%Animal Aid Inc: $1k → 13%IFAW: $2k → 8%Animal Aid Inc: $600 → 13%Animal Aid Inc: $530 → 13%Animal Aid Inc: $426 → 13%South Florida Wildlife Center: $50 → 13%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
CO
AZ
DC
HI
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.
$41k · 6 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$41k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+47%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue -7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2025 · $7k
  • AA
    ANIMAL AID INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +47%
  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +79%
  • SF
    SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50 · revenue +3%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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4
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
5
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
6
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
7
Speak Out for Animals

Animal and Wildlife legal framework

Animals
8
Worlds Aquarium

Marine Conservation

—
9
The Animal Welfare Foundation
—
10
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
11
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
12
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Wildlife Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal Aid Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $23,463 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCANIMAL AID INC: $4,636 · AnimalsANIMAL AID INCTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYDefenders of Wildlife: $2,025 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $2,000 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION+3 more: $2,119 · Animals+3 moreWild WhiskersInc: $10,000 · OtherWild WhiskersIncIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $300 · OtherGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,046 · Philanthropy
Animals$36,743Other$16,800Philanthropy$1,046

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $23,463 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL AID INC: $4,636 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,046 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $50 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Regina A Sondej & Salvatore D Cuccia Animal FoundationInc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regina A Sondej & Salvatore D Cuccia Animal FoundationInc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–15%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Regina A Sondej & Salvatore D Cuccia Animal FoundationInc 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 12 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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