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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and respectful treatment at the hands of humans and must be protected under the law.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
538
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Animals$85MFood & Nutrition$5.6MCrime & Legal$2.9MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$752kPublic Benefit$400kPhilanthropy$178kEnvironment$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 538 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 538 grants below total $21,762,154 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $23,297,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,535,600 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k166 grants · $1.1M
  • $10k–50k256 grants · $5.5M
  • $50k–250k105 grants · $8.9M
  • $250k+11 grants · $6.2M
$16,002
Median grant
States reached
$725M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$1,065,500
ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC$949,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$918,000
EMANCIPET$665,000
ANIMAL RESCUE COALITION INC$467,807
GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY$420,000
VET CARE COALITION$400,000
FORSYTH HUMANE SOCIETY$375,000
FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC$337,000
DOGS PLAYING FOR LIFE$325,000
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC$319,940
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA$206,000
UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$200,000
MOHAWK AND HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY$177,709
GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$175,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $771k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADK SPAY AND NEUTER: $86k → 11%RONDOUT VALLEY ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION INC: $18k → 16%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAMS: $20k → 9%HOUSING EQUITY & ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM: $150k → 14%HOUSING EQUALITY AND ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM: $75k → 14%HOUSING EQUALITY AND ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM: $60k → 14%HOUSING EQUALITY AND ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM: $50k → 14%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $50k → 14%THIS OLD HORSE: $35k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $32k → 6%GRACE MARKETPLACE: $10k → 19%THIS OLD HORSE: $25k → 6%AAEP FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $20k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $16k → 6%AAEP FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$81M · 378 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

378 repeat relationships — 232 still active in FY2024, 146 since wound down; 304 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

378
309

Total granted

$81M
$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+30%

Still filing today

87%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +130%
  • DP
    Dogs Playing for Life Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +12% · 29% of their budget
  • EI
    EMANCIPET INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +16%
  • AC
    ALLEGANY COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $205k · revenue +35%
  • PC
    Prevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committee
    one grant, 2018 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
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
3
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
4
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
5
Raskels Rescue
Animals
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
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
8
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…

Education
9
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
10
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
11
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Equine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%5/986
the rest of the field
13%
240,391/1,818,579

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 805 of the 995 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
252
Early backer (in before they grew)
792/805
Grantees still filing
514/805
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $8,397,268 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INCLOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION — $3,134,263 · AnimalsDogs Playing for Life Inc — $2,391,500 · Animals+154 more — $47,510,969 · Animals+154 moreNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — $2,705,952 · OtherNYC DEPARTMENT…CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS — $1,328,107 · OtherCITY OF LOS AN…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $900,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES RE…MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY ACTION & HUMAN SERVICES — $494,110 · OtherVet Care Coalition — $400,000 · OtherThe Association for Animal Welfare Advancement — $390,000 · Other+22 more — $3,494,513 · Other+22 moreFARM SHARE INC — $815,000 · Food & NutritionA Greener World — $320,000 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC — $292,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $1,310,000 · Community ImprovementTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $275,834 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $231,813 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $169,300 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $159,931 · EducationVermont Law School — $120,983 · EducationHOUSING EQUITY & ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM — $410,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC — $127,700 · Human ServicesSECOND STRIDE INC — $166,320 · PhilanthropyPETCO LOVE — $150,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $281,505 · Health
Animals$61,434,000Other$9,712,682Food & Nutrition$1,427,000Community Improvement$1,310,000Education$957,861Human Services$797,700Philanthropy$316,320Health$281,505

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $8,397,268 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION — $3,134,263 over 7y, 53% of budgetDogs Playing for Life Inc — $2,391,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetEMANCIPET INC — $1,870,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $1,609,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetOKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,606,090 over 7y, 50% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,553,200 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetFixNation Inc — $1,404,900 over 8y, 12% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $1,310,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc — $1,174,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $1,066,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $967,420 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $953,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $900,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY — $875,557 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetFARM SHARE INC — $815,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $808,510 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $788,600 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA — $699,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE FOUNDATION OF SCHENECTADY INC — $668,013 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA — $647,750 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC — $600,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance — $595,500 over 6y, 18% of budgetShelter Animals Count — $580,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $505,970 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetANIMALKIND INC — $504,680 over 6y, 20% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $499,755 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCHEMUNG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $499,444 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetFOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC) — $496,600 over 6y, 15% of budgetAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc — $467,807 over 1y, 36% of budgetWENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $445,350 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION — $441,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSPAY AND NEUTER SYRACUSE INC — $431,975 over 6y, 13% of budgetGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $420,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHOUSING EQUITY & ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM — $410,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetFelines Inc — $400,200 over 4y, 14% of budgetVet Care Coalition — $400,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $395,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERINC — $394,706 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Association for Animal Welfare Advancement — $390,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetForsyth Humane Society — $375,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION — $372,634 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL — $356,716 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTOMPKINS COUNTY SPCA — $355,985 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetSEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE — $349,140 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE — $348,040 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCentral New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program — $346,850 over 6y, 27% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas — $346,390 over 6y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Dogs Playing for Life Inc
  • Who funds EMANCIPET INC
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds FixNation Inc
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
  • Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
  • Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds FARM SHARE INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds SPCA of Texas
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA
  • Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE FOUNDATION OF SCHENECTADY INC
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA
  • Who funds MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance
  • Who funds Shelter Animals Count
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds ANIMALKIND INC
  • Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC
  • Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA
  • Who funds FOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC)
  • Who funds Animal Rescue Coalition Inc
  • Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION
  • Who funds SPAY AND NEUTER SYRACUSE INC
  • Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds HOUSING EQUITY & ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM
  • Who funds Felines Inc
  • Who funds Vet Care Coalition

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.

Petco LoveTX193.2× affinity261 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Humane World for Animals Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Banfield Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Vca Charities

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 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 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 · 190%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Vermont Law School14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Farm Share Inc6% of income from government
  • Greenhill Humane Society Spca1% of income from government
  • Tlc Petsnip Inc1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue Coalition Inc0% of income from government
  • Wags Pet Clinic Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 995 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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