· Public charity
The Arizona Pet Project
THE ARIZONA PET PROJECT creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection they have.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR KELLY'S MOBILE SURGICAL UNITMOST VALUABLE PETS MVP INC | $119,662 |
| MARICOPA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL | $30,769 |
| PHOENIX DOG CAT BIRD HOSPITAL | $23,008 |
| HARTT | $20,520 |
| MOBILE ANIMAL SURGICAL HOSPITAL INC | $16,331 |
| PALM GLEN ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $13,001 |
| ALTA VISTA ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $12,930 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MVMOST VALUABLE PETS MVP INC3× · 2018–2020 · $414k
- PPPURRFERRED PETS VETERINARY CLINIC2× · 2018–2019 · $145k
- PDPHOENIX DOG CAT BIRD HOSPITAL3× · 2018–2020 · $140k
Funded once
- AVALTA VISTA ANIMAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $21k
- ATALTERED TAILSone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +4%
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.
2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arizona Pet Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arizona Pet Project. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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