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The Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Animals$589kHuman Services$190kHealth$144kYouth Development$67kPublic Benefit$40kRecreation & Sports$38kEducation$33kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$409k
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPEUTIC CENT$10,000
EAST BAY SPCA$10,000
FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER$10,000
THE HUMAN-ANIMAL CONNECTION$10,000
PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$10,000
ANIMAL FRIENDS INC$10,000
NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY$10,000
CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY$10,000
SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC$10,000
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF ALEXANDRIA$10,000
LOLLYPOP FARM$10,000
QUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDIING$10,000
LOS ANGELES SPCA$10,000
CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE$10,000
ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DOG TAG BUDDIES: $10k → 9%NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $8k → 7%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 12%FORGET ME NOT CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 9%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $10k → 10%PAWS AND THINK INC: $10k → 16%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $10k → 6%IN STEP WITH HORSES INC: $10k → 17%HERO'S BRIDGE: $8k → 6%LANGTON GREEN INC: $3k → 6%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $5k → 11%FORGET ME NOT CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 9%QUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDIING: $10k → 11%PAWS AND THINK INC: $10k → 16%IN STEP WITH HORSES INC: $10k → 17%HERO'S BRIDGE: $8k → 6%FORGET ME NOT CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 9%PAWS AND THINK INC: $10k → 16%HERO'S BRIDGE: $8k → 6%PAWS AND THINK INC: $6k → 16%PAWS AND THINK INC: $5k → 16%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 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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$700k · 37 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
101

Total granted

$700k
$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+26%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitEducationOther

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

  • PT
    PAWS & THINK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +33%
  • CA
    CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +79%
  • SC
    SON CARE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • LF
    LIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • NF
    New Freedom Farm Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • TW
    THE WOUNDED HEROES FUND OF BAKERSFI
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

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2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
2
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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3
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Happy Tails Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
7
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
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
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
11
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
12
From the Heart Animal Sanctuary
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Son Care Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%0/121
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,444

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

116 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. 116 of the 154 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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/116
Grantees still filing
82/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $31,250 · AnimalsJasper Ridge Farm — $30,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE — $30,000 · AnimalsProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $25,000 · AnimalsPaws for Heroes — $20,000 · AnimalsJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · Animals+53 more — $433,224 · Animals+53 moreSON CARE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherSON CARE FOUNDATION INCHUMAN-ANIMAL CONNECTION — $20,000 · Other+54 more — $409,231 · Other+54 morePAWS & THINK INC — $40,500 · Human ServicesPAWS & THINK I…Forget Me Not Childrens Services — $30,000 · Human ServicesForget Me Not …HERO'S BRIDGE — $22,500 · Human ServicesHERO'S BRIDGEIN STEP WITH HORSESINC — $19,600 · Human ServicesIN STEP WITH H…ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST — $17,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE DOG…CIRCLE TAIL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesQUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH — $10,000 · Human ServicesDOG TAG BUDDIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW LEASH ON LIFE USA — $7,500 · Human Services+3 more — $12,500 · Human Services+3 moreWILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER — $20,000 · HealthWILD HEART…INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC — $20,000 · HealthINDIANA CA…Soul Friends Inc — $20,000 · HealthSoul Frien…CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC — $10,000 · HealthCANINE THE…CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $10,000 · HealthCLOVERLEAF…HORSES & HEROES INC — $10,000 · HealthHORSES & H…SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $9,050 · HealthSQUARE PEG…HERD FOUNDATION INC — $8,400 · HealthHERD FOUND…RISE CANYON RANCH — $7,600 · HealthSADDLES IN SERVICE — $7,500 · HealthHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $7,500 · HealthAHEAD WITH HORSES INC — $5,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $4,000 · HealthDETROIT HORSE POWER — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentK9 YOUTH ALLIANCE — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentA Fair Shake for Youth Inc — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HORSEABILITY INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMS ON HORSEBACK — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEASHES OF VALOR — $10,000 · Public BenefitWORKING DOGS FOR VETS — $10,000 · Public BenefitPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $7,500 · Public BenefitOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS — $7,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC — $5,000 · Public BenefitPEGASUS FARM — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsGUIDING REINS — $17,500 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$589,474Other$459,231Human Services$190,100Health$144,050Youth Development$66,500Public Benefit$40,000Recreation & Sports$37,500

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 budgetPAWS & THINK INC — $40,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $31,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJasper Ridge Farm — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services — $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSON CARE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHERO'S BRIDGE — $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPaws for Heroes — $20,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEGASUS FARM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSoul Friends Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetIN STEP WITH HORSESINC — $19,600 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPaws Helping People Inc — $19,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGUIDING REINS — $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetK9 YOUTH ALLIANCE — $17,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetPROSPECT RIDING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE INSPIRED CHANGE — $15,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetA Fair Shake for Youth Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZuma's Rescue Ranch — $11,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSUNY COBLESKILL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP HORSEABILITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEASHES OF VALOR — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWORKING DOGS FOR VETS — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAnimal Farm Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJOYRIDE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBARREN RIVER ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHORSES & HEROES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL LINK COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncThornton S Jr and Kat…The Duffield Family F…Banfield FoundationThe American Society …Best Friends Animal S…Pedigree FoundationHumane World for Anim…The Summerlee Foundat…Disabled Veterans Nat…Greater Good Charities
Petco LoveTX36.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Banfield Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Best Friends Animal Society · Pedigree Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Summerlee Foundation · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · Greater Good Charities

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 Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education 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 · 110%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to The Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education?

Find your warmest path to The Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education 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 154 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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