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The Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$578k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Animals$6.0M
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $824,668 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,254,624 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,429,956 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 $10k6 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
  • $250k+1 grant · $578k
$10,675
Median grant
3
States reached
$226M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT$578,424
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$60,368
ASPCA$58,198
LITTLE WANDERERS NYC$40,578
AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE$15,440
MUDDY PAWS RESCUE$12,712
ADOPT A BOXER RESCUE$10,675
MR BONES & COMPANY INC$9,193
MEOW PARLOUR CATS INC$9,048
RESCUE CITY$8,042
BROOKLYN ANIMAL ACTION$7,671
CARSON CATS RESCUE$7,331
WAGGYTAIL RESCUE$6,988
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARING ABOUT THE STRAYS: $33k → 12%HUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $14k → 14%READY FOR RESCUE: $16k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $78k → 6%FUR REAL NYC: $12k → 13%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $28k → 6%BIDEAWEE INC: $14k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $60k → 6%BIDEAWEE INC: $14k → 17%RESCUE CITY: $13k → 20%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $26k → 6%PAUL THE CAT GUY INC: $12k → 13%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $52k → 6%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE: $26k → 6%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $36k → 6%MUDDY PAWS RESCUE: $16k → 13%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $24k → 6%MUDDY PAWS RESCUE: $13k → 13%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $32k → 6%NYPD: $691k → 17%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $24k → 6%NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $646k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $30k → 6%NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $578k → 17%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE: $24k → 6%NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $507k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $25k → 6%NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $425k → 17%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE: $21k → 6%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $22k → 6%AIR TWIGA ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 6%ASPCA: $58k → 17%ASPCA: $41k → 17%ASPCA: $32k → 17%ASPCA: $31k → 17%THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30k → 17%ASPCA: $30k → 17%THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27k → 17%THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27k → 17%LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC: $56k → 17%LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC: $56k → 17%LITTLE WANDERERS NYC: $41k → 17%LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC: $40k → 17%LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC: $37k → 17%ANIMAL HAVEN: $12k → 17%MR BONES & COMPANY INC: $23k → 17%MR BONES & COMPANY INC: $15k → 17%MR BONES & COMPANY INC: $15k → 17%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 21 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$5.9M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
AnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $333k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +80%
  • BIDEAWEE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AH
    ANIMAL HAVEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +95%
  • AC
    ANJELLICLE CATS RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +436%
  • AA
    ABANDONED ANGELS COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -14%

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
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
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
3
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
4
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
5
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
6
Pet Rescue Alliance Inc

Rescue animals from shelter

Animals
7
One Love Dog Rescue Inc

Rescue abandoned dogs from out of nys

Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
9
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
10
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
11
All About Animals Rescue Inc

Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs

Animals
12
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Dogs Rock Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Boxer Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%19%5–10yr21%56%10–20yr21%7%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr10%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr21%3%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr10%48%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/31
the rest of the field
11%
5,905/53,180

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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYPD — $2,182,082 · OtherNYPDNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — $2,156,603 · OtherNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION+5 more — $98,234 · OtherNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $333,307 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE A…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $275,039 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TH…LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC — $229,195 · AnimalsLITTLE WANDERERS NYC INCAir Twiga Animal Rescue Inc — $188,704 · AnimalsAir Twiga Animal Rescue IncMr Bones & Company Inc — $97,392 · AnimalsMr Bones & Company IncBIDEAWEE INC — $66,269 · AnimalsHUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $58,349 · Animals+16 more — $222,958 · Animals+16 moreMuddy Paws Rescue — $57,421 · PhilanthropyPosh Pets Rescue Inc — $5,067 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,436,919Animals$1,471,213Philanthropy$57,421Recreation & Sports$5,067

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $333,307 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $275,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC — $229,195 over 5y, 10% of budgetAir Twiga Animal Rescue Inc — $188,704 over 8y, 10% of budgetMr Bones & Company Inc — $97,392 over 8y, 11% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $66,269 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $58,349 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue — $57,421 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCARING ABOUT THE STRAYS — $43,246 over 2y, 49% of budgetAdopt A Boxer Rescue — $30,632 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetREADY FOR RESCUE — $28,053 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetRESCUE CITY INC — $27,942 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPAUL THE CAT GUY INC — $26,487 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC — $14,251 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBrooklyn Animal Action Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPUPPY KITTY NY CITY INC — $12,922 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC — $11,936 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANJELLICLE CATS RESCUE INC — $9,946 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMEOW PARLOUR CATS INC — $9,048 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCarson Cats Rescue — $7,331 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetABANDONED ANGELS COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE INC — $6,925 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRESCUE DOGS ROCK INC — $6,021 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASON S HELPING PAW INC — $5,511 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLouies Legacy Animal Rescue — $5,462 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPosh Pets Rescue Inc — $5,067 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWaldos Rescue Pen Inc — $5,014 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

The Duffield Family F…American Express Foun…Paypal Charitable Giv…Petsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesBest Friends Animal S…The Pfizer Foundation…All About Spay Neuter…South Fork FoundationThe Warburg Pincus Fo…The Tapestry Foundati…The Lazard Charitable…
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · American Express Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · All About Spay Neuter Inc · South Fork Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation

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 Animal Medical Center 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Animal Medical Center?

    Find your warmest path to The Animal Medical Center through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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