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The Pet Care Trust

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.

$256k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2,829
Grants FY2024
764
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50
Largest grant, FY2024
$49,500
Organizations funded a year
618 to 972
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
52
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Pet Care Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving581$102k22%
FY2023764$63k15%
FY2022835$50k13%
FY2021918$56k14%
FY2020899$54k21%
FY2019972$63k36%
FY2018757$51k49%
FY2017618$57kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.7MReligion$50Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pet Partners$61,00022%
American Humane Association$15,16010%
Kathy Deptola Animal Rescue Inc$2895n/a

Plus 1,997 recipients with no EIN on record ($419k), not named here.

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About The Pet Care Trust

How much does The Pet Care Trust give?
The Pet Care Trust reported 2,829 grants totaling $255,555 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 618 and 972 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Pet Care Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (100%), Religion (0%).
Who are The Pet Care Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pet Partners ($61k), American Humane Association ($15k), Kathy Deptola Animal Rescue Inc ($289).
Does The Pet Care Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pet Care Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Pet Care Trust based?
The Pet Care Trust is based in MD.

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 2000 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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