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The Vegan Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Vegan Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Animals$99kFood & Nutrition$84kEducation$10kHealth$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cleve State University Animal Law$10,000
Our Honor 501c3$10,000
New Roots Institute 501c3$10,000
Animal Equality 501c3$10,000
LASA Sanctuary 501c3$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Factory Farming Awareness Coalition: $10k → 10%Daily Hugz: $5k → 11%Vegan Outreach Inc: $30k → 12%Animal Equality 501c3: $10k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY: $200 → 12%Animal Outlook: $3k → 14%Pinellas County Animal Services: $198 → 12%Lewis & Clark Law School Center for Animal Studies: $10k → 12%LASA Sanctuary 501c3: $1k → 10%Stahl's No Harm Farm: $300 → 13%VEGAN SHIFT INC: $5k → 15%Cleve State University Animal Law: $10k → 17%Free From Harm 501c3: $4k → 14%People for Ethical Treatment of Animals: $430 → 19%BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE: $10k → 19%Factory Farming Awareness Coalition: $10k → 10%Vegan Outreach Inc: $10k → 12%New Roots Institute 501c3: $10k → 14%Animal Outlook: $3k → 14%LEWIS CLARK LAW SCHOOL C: $8k → 12%Vegan Shift: $1k → 15%Cleveland State University Foundation: $10k → 17%Free From Harm: $2k → 14%Factory Farming Awareness Coalition: $10k → 10%Vegan Outreach Inc: $5k → 12%New Roots Institute: $10k → 14%Lewis&Clark Law School Center for Animal Studies: $5k → 12%Cleveland Vegan Society: $400 → 17%Free From Harm: $1k → 14%FACTORY FARMING AWARENESS COALITION: $3k → 10%Our Honor 501c3: $10k → 14%Waterloo Alley Cat Project: $270 → 17%Neighborhood Pets: $5k → 17%Neighborhood Pets: $1k → 17%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
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 7 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$127k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+1%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • VO
    VEGAN OUTREACH INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +18%
  • NR
    New Roots Institute
    5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +240%
  • NP
    NEIGHBORHOOD PETS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CS
    CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -34%
  • BH
    BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue ×233
  • LC
    LEWIS CLARK LAW SCHOOL C
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
One Step for Animals

One Step For Animals exists to reduce cruelty to animals. We do this by exposing the worst abuses of factory farms through online outreach and booklet distribution. We then offer people alternatives.

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Vegan Coalition

This organization was formed to promote the vegan lifestyle and to promote respect and care for all animals.

Animals
5
Institute for Animal Happiness

Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…

Animals
6
Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary

Our mission at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary is to provide a safe, loving and permanent home for rescued farmed animals whom are not accepted at most shelters. In addition to providing life-long care for the animals, we are dedicated to…

Animals
7
Voices for Animals

To seek social change and educate the public of the right of non-humans to live without pain and suffering caused by humans. the organization operates an ongoing spay and neuter certificate program for feral cats in the central virgina…

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8
The Vegan Awareness Foundation

Working to eliminate animal suffering, reduce environmental impacts, and improve human health through a vegan diet.

Education
9
Middle East Vegan Society Inc

We firmly believe that the animal welfare and vegan community can significantly enhance their impact by extending their efforts to all corners of the world. Our dedication is to facilitate and contribute to this global outreach, striving…

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10
Vegan Friendly Inc

Vegan friendly inc.'s mission is to educate the public about the benefits of veganism and make it more accessible to the public.

Animals
11
A Just World

Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.

Animals
12
Karma Farm Sanctuary Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Outlook Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waterloo Alley Cat Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VEGAN OUTREACH INC: $48,000 · Food & NutritionVEGAN OUTREACH INCNew Roots Institute: $43,150 · Food & NutritionNew Roots InstituteBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC: $9,500 · Food & NutritionBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INCLewis & Clark Law School Center for Animal Studies: $15,000 · OtherLewis & Clark Law School Center for Animal St…Animal Equality 501c3: $10,000 · OtherAnimal Equality 501c3New Roots Institute 501c3: $10,000 · OtherNew Roots Institute 501c3Cleve State University Animal Law: $10,000 · OtherCleve State University Animal LawOur Honor 501c3: $10,000 · OtherOur Honor 501c3LEWIS CLARK LAW SCHOOL C: $8,000 · OtherLEWIS CLARK LAW SCHOOL CVEGAN SHIFT INC: $6,000 · OtherVEGAN SHIFT INCDAILY HUGZ: $5,000 · OtherDAILY HUGZFree From Harm 501c3: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $4,998 · Other+5 moreNEIGHBORHOOD PETS: $6,317 · AnimalsANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $6,000 · AnimalsFlorida Voices for Animals Inc: $600 · Animals+3 more: $900 · AnimalsCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCLEVELAND VEGAN SOCIETY: $400 · Arts & CultureCompassionate Actions Project Kind Veg Healthy Vegetarian Food Bank: $114 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$100,650Other$82,998Animals$13,817Education$10,000Arts & Culture$400Human Services$114

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVEGAN OUTREACH INC: $48,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNew Roots Institute: $43,150 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PETS: $6,317 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Voices for Animals Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO ALLEY CAT PROJECT: $270 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Greenbaum Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greenbaum FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greenbaum Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Vegan Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vegan Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%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
    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

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    How do I get to The Vegan Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Vegan Fund 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 26 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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