· Private foundation
The Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare Ltd
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $483k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $991k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NEW YORK CITY | $100,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN VETERAN SERVICE DOG ACADEMY (AVSDA) | $82,500 |
| ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE | $80,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER | $75,000 |
| TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY (DREAM RIDERS) | $70,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS | $70,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS | $65,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER | $53,200 |
| SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER (SAMC) | $50,000 |
| PET PANTRY OF LANCASTER COUNTY | $50,000 |
| HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER | $45,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $397k 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
- ARANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +69%
- AAANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER4× · 2021–2024 · $326k · revenue +49%
- PAPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS4× · 2020–2023 · $277k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $165k · revenue -16%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PET PARENTSone grant, 2020 · $103k
- CCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +63%
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.
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Chittenden County and the most unlike its peers is Dart Command Central Inc. 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 27 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 56 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
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 RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEYS ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PET PANTRY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DART Command Central Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PET PARENTS ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH CATS INC ↗
- Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
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: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Petco Love · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie 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 Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare Ltd 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mitzvah Fund 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.
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