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S A F E Foundation at a glance

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S A F E Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$750
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Animals$14kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$103
Median grant
9
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Wildlife Federation$750
PETA$500
PETA$500
North Shore Animal League America$500
The Nature Conservancy$500
ASPCA$500
Humane Society of the United States$300
Baja Animal Sanctuary$258
Individual grant recipient$250
Hope For Paws Rescue$250
Stray Rescue of St Louis$250
New Beginnings for Animals$250
World Wildlife Fund$200
Blue Bell Foundation for Cats$103
DAWG$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%New Beginnings for Animals: $250 → 10%Sierra Club: $200 → 10%Baja Animal Sanctuary: $258 → 11%National Resource Defense Council: $75 → 14%North Shore Animal League America: $500 → 6%Farm Sanctuary: $100 → 12%National Audubon Society: $108 → 17%Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue: $100 → 13%Humane Society of the United States: $300 → 14%K9s For Warriors: $200 → 6%Stray Rescue of St Louis: $250 → 21%National Wildlife Federation: $750 → 6%The Nature Conservancy: $500 → 7%Trout Unlimited: $50 → 11%PETA: $5k → 19%Alley Cat Allies: $75 → 8%Blue Bell Foundation for Cats: $150 → 10%Sierra Club: $75 → 10%National Resource Defense Council: $50 → 14%North Shore Animal League America: $75 → 6%Farm Sanctuary: $50 → 12%National Audubon Society: $75 → 17%Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue: $100 → 13%Humane Society of the United States: $206 → 14%K9s For Warriors: $100 → 6%National Wildlife Federation: $103 → 6%The Nature Conservancy: $103 → 7%PETA: $724 → 19%Blue Bell Foundation for Cats: $103 → 10%Hope For Paws Rescue: $250 → 14%SPCAI: $158 → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $200 → 14%PETA: $500 → 19%Saddleback Valley Humane Society: $1k → 10%Best Friends Animal Society: $158 → 14%SPCAI: $75 → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $103 → 14%PETA: $500 → 19%DAWG: $150 → 10%Best Friends Animal Society: $100 → 14%Humane Society of the United States: $100 → 14%PETA: $300 → 19%DAWG: $100 → 10%Best Friends Animal Society: $100 → 14%ASPCA: $500 → 17%Boxer Rescue LA: $250 → 14%ASPCA: $200 → 17%ASPCA: $100 → 17%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

NY
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 17 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$14k
$50

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +61%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $903 · revenue +39%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $800 · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • MV
    Mission Viejo Animal Shelter
    one grant, 2022 · $50
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
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
3
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
4
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
5
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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7
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
8
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

—
11
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
12
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Friends Animal Society; the most unlike its peers is Baja Animal Sanctuary. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $7,024 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INCNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $903 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $800 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSHumane World for Animals Inc: $606 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $575 · Animals+10 more: $2,016 · Animals+10 moreSaddleback Valley Humane Society: $1,100 · OtherSaddleback Valley Humane S…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $603 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSPCAI: $283 · OtherSPCAISIERRA CLUB: $275 · OtherSIERRA CLUBBLUE BELL FOUNDATION FOR CATS: $253 · OtherBLUE BELL FOUNDATION FOR C…Individual grant recipient: $250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHope For Paws Rescue: $250 · OtherHope For Paws RescueDAWG: $250 · OtherDAWGNational Audubon Society: $183 · OtherNational Resource Defense Council: $125 · Other+2 more: $150 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $353 · Environment
Animals$11,924Other$3,722Environment$353

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 budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $7,024 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $903 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $606 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $358 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $353 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAJA ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $258 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE BELL FOUNDATION FOR CATS: $253 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings for Animals Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY POLICE CANINE ASSOC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED 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 S A F E Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S A F E Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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