· Private foundation
Ruth a McDaniel Animal Welfare Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI STATE HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| STOVER ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $7,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS SPCA | $5,000 |
| MEOW MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $3,000 |
| LUCKY 13 RESCUE INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASTOVER ANIMAL RESCUE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +13%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER OF ST JOSEPH INC7× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +211%
- L1LUCKY 13 RESCUE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CACastaway Animals Rescue Effortone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- SNSPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +191%
- RORescue Onegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +401%
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.
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home
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.
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.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
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…
Animal protection and preservation
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
How this is measured
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 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STOVER ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds Castaway Animals Rescue Effort ↗
- Who funds LUCKY 13 RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds Rescue One ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Humane World for Animals Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth a McDaniel Animal Welfare Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth a McDaniel Animal Welfare Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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