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The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement

The Association conducts seminars and certification programs to carry out its exempt purposes.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$265kOther$135k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $24,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,750 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.

$24,800
Median grant
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States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Love for Animals$24,800
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PET POPULATION STUDY AND POLICY: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA: $8k → 14%PAGE ANIMAL ADOPTION AGENCY: $10k → 16%BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 10%PLACER SPCA: $10k → 6%COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA ANIMAL SERVICES: $5k → 8%SACRAMENTO SPCA: $10k → 12%CHEMUNG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $5k → 15%ROSENBERG ANIMAL CONTROL & SHELTER: $10k → 8%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $8k → 19%EL PASO ANIMAL SERVICES: $5k → 21%ANIMAL HUMANE NEW MEXICO: $5k → 14%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $10k → 13%CITRUS COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $5k → 17%BOONE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 9%HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $10k → 15%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $15k → 9%SAVING GRACE INC: $10k → 17%METRO ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL: $10k → 14%BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 12%BURLINGTON ANIMAL SERVICES: $5k → 13%UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $15k → 11%CACHE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%The Love for Animals: $25k → 13%BAINBRIDGE DECATUR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 23%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS INC: $7k → 10%RIFLE ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 10%ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%HOPE FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 12%EVERETT ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%ALASKA SPCA: $5k → 10%ST SOPHIAS FORGOTTEN FELINES: $10k → 7%PET CENTRAL HELPS: $10k → 11%PEORIA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES: $10k → 14%GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 9%PITTSYLVANIA PET CENTER: $10k → 14%LAFOURCHE PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 17%ST BERNARD PARISH ANIMAL SERVICES: $15k → 22%LOUISIANA SPCA: $10k → 23%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER (BARCS): $5k → 6%MIDCOAST HUMANE: $10k → 7%ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $5k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $8k → 8%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%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

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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 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.

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Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
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Humane Society of Skagit County

We are an animal shelter committed to finding homes for unwanted pets, reuniting lost pets with their owners or new homes, and educating the public on the necessity of spaying and neutering.

Animals
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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
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Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
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Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
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Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
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Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
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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
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Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
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Humane Society & Animal Rescue of Muskegon County

To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.

Animals
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Columbia Gorge Humane Society

Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…

Animals
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Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc

Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Sheboygan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bainbridge-Decatur County Humane Society Inc. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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

37 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. 37 of the 49 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INCUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB — $15,000 · AnimalsUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHABKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · AnimalsLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 · AnimalsSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 · AnimalsThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA — $10,000 · AnimalsPage Animal Adoption Center — $10,000 · AnimalsLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC — $10,000 · AnimalsPET CENTRAL HELPS — $10,000 · AnimalsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $10,000 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsJourney Home Animal Center — $10,000 · AnimalsMIDCOAST HUMANE — $10,000 · AnimalsST SOPHIAS FORGOTTEN FELINES — $10,000 · Animals+19 more — $105,000 · Animals+19 moreLOVE FOR ANIMALS INC — $24,800 · OtherLOVE FOR ANIMALS INCST BERNARD PARISH GOVERNMENT — $15,000 · OtherST BERNARD PARISH GOVERNMENTNATIONAL COUNCIL ON PET POPULATION STUDY AND POLICY — $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL ON PET POPULATION STU…Pittsylvania County Parks and Recreation — $10,000 · OtherPittsylvania County Parks and Recreati…LAFOURCHE PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER — $10,000 · OtherLAFOURCHE PARISH ANIMAL SHELTERPEORIA COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION — $10,000 · OtherPEORIA COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSIONROSENBERG ANIMAL CONTROL AND SHELTER — $10,000 · OtherROSENBERG ANIMAL CONTROL AND SHELTERMETRO NASHVILLE PARKS AND RECREATIO — $10,000 · OtherMETRO NASHVILLE PARKS AND RECREATIOCACHE HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherCITY OF EVERETT — $5,000 · OtherCITRUS COUNTY SUPPORT SERVICES — $5,000 · OtherCounty of Santa Clara — $5,000 · OtherCity of Burlington — $5,000 · OtherHOPE FOR ANIMALS INC — $5,000 · OtherEL PASO MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 · Other
Animals$265,000Other$134,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB — $15,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPET CENTRAL HELPS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJourney Home Animal Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST SOPHIAS FORGOTTEN FELINES — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCACHE HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAINBRIDGE-DECATUR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOONE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEMUNG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALASKA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR ANIMALS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Best Friends Animal S…Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesThe American Society …Humane World for Anim…BISSELL Pet FoundationBanfield FoundationPedigree FoundationVca CharitiesThe Michelson Found A…
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA51.2× affinity24 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 · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Humane World for Animals Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Banfield Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Vca Charities · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc

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 Association for Animal Welfare Advancement 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.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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