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The Petland Charities

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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$804kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHealth$9kCrime & Legal$8kFood & Nutrition$4kMembership Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$3,328
Median grant
5
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE FOUNDATION$81,010
ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$46,557
PDC CHARITY$10,231
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR COUNSELING SERVICES-TRACI SHREYER$3,328
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
CAPS FOR THE CURE$2,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY$1,000
CABIN CRITTERS RESCUE$500
KIDSLINKEDCOM$450
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
MO
KY
WV
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$790k · 37 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
48

Total granted

$790k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+51%

Still filing today

49%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • RC
    ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $149k · revenue +69%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +70%
  • CC
    CABIN CRITTERS RESCUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AH
    AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +136%
  • VI
    Veterinary Innovation Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • AD
    A DOG'S DREAM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
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
2
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
3
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
7
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
8
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
9
Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals
10
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
11
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
12
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help the Animals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Pit Rescue. 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

36 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. 36 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURDUE FOUNDATION: $333,755 · OtherPURDUE FOUNDATIONHUMANE SOCIETY: $63,604 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETYMAKE A WISH: $54,634 · OtherMAKE A WISHIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+52 more: $127,527 · Other+52 moreROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $148,758 · AnimalsROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INCHEARTLAND CANINES FOR VETERANS INC: $62,300 · AnimalsHEARTLAND CANINES FOR VETERANS INCAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · AnimalsMISFIT PAWS RESCUE: $14,720 · Animals+28 more: $65,564 · Animals+28 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesVeterinary Innovation Council: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$599,520Animals$306,342Human Services$11,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $148,758 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHEARTLAND CANINES FOR VETERANS INC: $62,300 over 4y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISFIT PAWS RESCUE: $14,720 over 2y, 28% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeterinary Innovation Council: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PET CARE TRUST: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $3,766 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCABIN CRITTERS RESCUE: $3,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWellBeing International Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Acres United Rescue Animal Sanctuary Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP THE ANIMALS INC: $2,131 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLOYD FELINES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSierra's Haven For New And Used Pets: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HOUNDS DOG RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANINE COLLECTIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUEINC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIS HANDS EXTENDED SANCTUARY: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PLACEMENT & PROTECTION I: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of Greene County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKNOX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Humane Association of CNY Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL CARE ALLIANCE COMPANY: $713 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAT ROUNDUP RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetADOPT A PIT RESCUE: $470 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND CANINES FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISFIT PAWS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Veterinary Innovation Council ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PET CARE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds CABIN CRITTERS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds WellBeing International Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Liberty Acres United Rescue Animal Sanctuary Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HELP THE ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds FLOYD FELINES INC ↗

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.

Petsmart Charities IncPaypal Charitable Giv…Best Friends Animal S…Petco LoveColumbus FoundationNetwork for GoodAssurant FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Petsmart Charities IncAZ19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Columbus Foundation · Network for Good · Assurant Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Petland Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Petland Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%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
    3get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Petland Charities?

    Find your warmest path to The Petland Charities 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 90 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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