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The Lazin Animal Foundation Inc

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.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$218k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$5.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$676k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
$217,678
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$217,678
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$10,515
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.4M → 11%FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC: $250k → 12%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC: $303k → 10%PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $15k → 14%CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $200k → 12%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $218k → 12%KOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY: $225k → 15%LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $450k → 7%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.0M → 11%FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC: $150k → 12%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC: $228k → 10%PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $15k → 14%KOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 15%LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $250k → 7%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $500k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC: $109k → 12%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC: $114k → 10%LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 7%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $52k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC: $109k → 12%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 10%PHOENIX ANIMAL CARE COALITION: $75k → 11%PHOENIX ANIMAL CARE COALITION: $75k → 11%PHOENIX ANIMAL CARE COALITION: $60k → 11%PHOENIX ANIMAL CARE COALITION: $50k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $11k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 7 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$5.5M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +82%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $676k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance
    3× · 2021–2023 · $618k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rescue Coop
Animals
2
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
3
Pets Return Home

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

Animals
4
K911

To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home

Animals
5
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
6
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
10
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
11
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
12
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arizona Humane Society: $3,012,510 · AnimalsArizona Humane SocietyLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $710,000 · AnimalsLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUEFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance: $618,000 · AnimalsFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal AlliancePhoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911: $260,000 · AnimalsKOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $235,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $217,678 · AnimalsCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · Animals+1 more: $30,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $675,500 · HealthNATIONAL DIS…
Animals$5,283,188Health$675,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArizona Humane Society: $3,012,510 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $710,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $675,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance: $618,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetPhoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911: $260,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetKOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $235,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $217,678 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Best Friends Animal S…Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncMorgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Best Friends Animal SocietyUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lazin Animal Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lazin Animal Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Lazin Animal Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lazin Animal Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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