· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +130%- DPDogs Playing for Life Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +12% · 29% of their budget
- EIEMANCIPET INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +114%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUEone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +16%
- ACALLEGANY COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $205k · revenue +35%
- PCPrevent Cruelty California a Humane Society Committeeone grant, 2018 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Animal Welfare
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…
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To help rescue unwanted pets
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.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
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.
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Tlc Petsnip Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wags Pet Clinic Inc — 0% of income from government
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.