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The Shelter Inc at a glance

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The Shelter Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$678kHuman Services$58kCivil Rights$30kArts & Culture$1kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL$17,000
RESCUE RIDGE$9,000
CALLING ALL CATS RESCUE$9,000
ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM$8,000
VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY FOR ANIMAL SHEL$8,000
SHORE ANIMAL VOLUNTEER ENTERPRISE$7,500
MARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$7,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
POINT PAWS ANIMAL WELFARE$7,000
PLUMSTED TWP TNR COMMITTEE$6,000
MAKE EACH ONE WORTHWHILE$5,000
ALL FUR ONE PET RESCUE$5,000
TNR WORKS NJ$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
SHORE SAVES$3,000
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 (FY19–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $13k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $13k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $10k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $8k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $6k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $4k → 6%Allaire Community Farm: $4k → 6%LIBERTY HAVEN FARMS: $2k → 6%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$814k · 32 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
9

Total granted

$814k
$18k

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AB
    Animal Birth Control Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +57%
  • AC
    ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +291%
  • SA
    Shore Animal Volunteer Enterprise Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SS
    Save Shore Animal Volunteer Enterprise
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • MI
    MEOW INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • SA
    Shore Animal Volunteer Ent
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
A Purrfect Fit Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue center house and medical

Animals
2
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
3
Animal Rescue & Kare Association of Mccurtain County

Provide spay/neuter assist programs for lower income pet owners

Animals
4
Purr-Fect Match Animal Rescue

Animal rescue

Animals
5
Pet Organization Urging Neutering Care & Education

Rescue and rehome abandoned cats and kittens.

Animals
6
Little Kitten Rescue Inc

to rescue animals in need of veterinary care and to spay and neuter

—
7
All Hearts Rescue

Charity animal rescue for dogs and cats.

Animals
8
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
9
No Paw Left Behind Animal Rescue a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Save dogs and cats from kill shelter get them the medical care spay neuter they need and find them forever homes through Adoption

Human Services
10
Nj Animal Advocacy Alliance

The mission of the nj animal advocacy alliance is to protect the welfare of all homeless animals by reducing the number of homeless animals, offering low cost spay and neuter clinics, raising awareness and educating our youth.

—
11
Radnor Outreach & Animal Rescue

Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.

Animals
12
Spencer Pet Rescue

Rescue and adopt animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shore Animal Volunteer Enterprise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Plainfield Area Humane Society. 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

15 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. 15 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animal Birth Control Inc: $122,500 · AnimalsAnimal Birth Control IncCALLING ALL CATS INC: $86,500 · AnimalsCALLING ALL CATS INCShore Animal Volunteer Enterprise Inc: $50,750 · AnimalsShore Animal Volunteer Enterprise IncRESCUE RIDGE: $44,500 · AnimalsRESCUE RIDGEMARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $44,000 · AnimalsMARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARYVolunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc: $35,250 · AnimalsVolunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters IncTNR WORKS NJ: $21,250 · AnimalsMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA: $15,500 · Animals+4 more: $18,000 · AnimalsJERSEY SHORE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $31,500 · OtherJERSEY SHORE ANIMAL FOUNDATIONMAKE EACH ONE WORTHWHILE: $30,750 · OtherMAKE EACH ONE WORTHWHILEPLUMSTED TWP TNR COMMITTEE: $30,250 · OtherPLUMSTED TWP TNR COMMITTEEIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOINT PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE: $21,250 · OtherPOINT PAWS ANIMAL RESCUEVOLUNTEER AUX FOR ANIMAL SHELTERS: $19,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER AUX FOR ANIMAL SHELTERSIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherPOINT PAWS: $15,500 · OtherALL FUR ONE PET RESCUE: $15,000 · OtherSNAPS: $14,000 · OtherPoints Paw Animal Welfare: $14,000 · OtherNey Ney Cat Rescue: $14,000 · OtherSeer Farms: $13,000 · Other+17 more: $82,500 · Other+17 moreALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $57,750 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Animals$438,250Other$343,750Human Services$59,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimal Birth Control Inc: $122,500 over 9y, 17% of budgetCALLING ALL CATS INC: $86,500 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $57,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetShore Animal Volunteer Enterprise Inc: $50,750 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetRESCUE RIDGE: $44,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $44,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetVolunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc: $35,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetTNR WORKS NJ: $21,250 over 5y, 17% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL CRITTERS RESCUE INC: $8,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetKS KITTEN RESCUE: $7,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShore Saves: $4,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLiberty Haven Farm Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 Animal Birth Control Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALLING ALL CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO ↗
  • Who funds Shore Animal Volunteer Enterprise Inc ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE RIDGE ↗
  • Who funds MARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc ↗
  • Who funds TNR WORKS NJ ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds ALL CRITTERS RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds KS KITTEN RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Shore Saves ↗
  • Who funds Plainfield Area Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Liberty Haven Farm 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.

Manasquan Bank Charit…The Robert Wood Johns…Oceanfirst FoundationThe Bill & Ginger Win…Chubb Charitable Foun…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation IncNJ17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Bill & Ginger Winder Family Fd Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Shelter Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shelter Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Rescue Ridge: 6% of income from government
  • People for Animals Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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

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How do I get to The Shelter Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Shelter 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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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