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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
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States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 538 grants below total $21,762,154, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,297,754 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,535,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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:

Its 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 its 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
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

AK
ME
VT
NH
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ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
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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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

+53%
+32%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
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
6
Pound Pets Inc

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

Animals
7
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
8
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion
9
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
10
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
11
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
12
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co; 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.
04the grantee network

805 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. 805 of the 995 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
257
Early backer (in before they grew)
792/805
Grantees still filing
523/805
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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
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 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 ↗

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.

Petco LoveThe Duffield Family F…Humane World for Anim…Best Friends Animal S…Banfield FoundationGreater Good CharitiesPetsmart Charities IncBISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…The Michelson Found A…Vca Charities
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

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 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
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, 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 995 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home