· Private foundation
The Michelson Found Animals 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $363k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Animal Medicine Project | $750,000 |
| COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC | $289,701 |
| Animal Balance | $108,644 |
| The Little Lion Foundation | $53,000 |
| The PAW Mission Inc | $51,000 |
| Downtown Dog Rescue | $50,000 |
| STRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN | $50,000 |
| FixNation Inc | $50,000 |
| Pacific Coast Dog Rescue Inc | $36,000 |
| STAND Foundation Inc | $32,801 |
| Human Animal Bond Research Foundation | $32,500 |
| Open Door Veterinary Collective | $28,100 |
| Humane Society of Western Montana | $25,000 |
| THE RESCUE TRAIN | $25,000 |
| Center for Biological Diversity | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 31 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +259%
- FIFixNation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $846k · revenue +28%
- SCSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2023 · $775k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $205k
- CFCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
- FHFresno Humane Animal Shelterone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help rescue unwanted pets
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
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.
Animal Welfare
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miami Dade Community Services 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 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
293 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 293 of the 399 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPAY4LA INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds SIMI VALLEY NONPROFIT SPAY AND NEUTER CL ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE TRAIN ↗
- Who funds COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTERTOGETHER FOREVER ↗
- Who funds HUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Inner City Law Center ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BALANCE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE LION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETCO LOVE ↗
- Who funds HOME DOG LA ↗
- Who funds Heaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COAST DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs Playing for Life 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: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Banfield Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Pedigree 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 Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc 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.
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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