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Tiger Sanctuaries Inc

We rescue captive tigers from abusive and vulnerable environments.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$710kEducation$30k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $232,487 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $215,537 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,450
Median grant
2
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Performing Animal Welfare Society$9,450
Exotic Feline rescue center$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–18, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Big Cat Rescue: $49k → 13%Big Cat Rescue: $30k → 13%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

WA
MN
OR
IN
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $34k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$18k · 53% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 4 paws rescues in thailand and other asian countries

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$16k · 47% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 4 paws rescues in ukraine

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Tiger Sanctuaries Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Tiger Sanctuaries Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$582k · 5 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$582k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • EF
    Exotic Feline Rescue Center
    7× · 2017–2024 · $271k · revenue +59%
  • IE
    INSYNC EXOTIC INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $194k · revenue +88%
  • BC
    BIG CAT RESCUE CORP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $79k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AH
    ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $39k · revenue +31%
  • MO
    Manny O Productions
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • TW
    THE WILDCAT SANCTUARYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +175%
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
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
2
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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3
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
4
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
7
Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc
Animals
8
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
9
From the Heart Animal Sanctuary
Animals
10
Howlmore Animal Sanctuary Inc
Philanthropy
11
Predators of the Heart Dba Because We Matter Exotic Animal Res

Operation of a wildlife rescue that is usda licensed and insured, providing forever homes, care and rehabilitation for exotic animals that are released into our care from government agencies(i.e. animal control, fish & wildlife), and from…

Youth Development
12
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wildcat Sanctuary; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 14 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Exotic Feline Rescue Center: $271,026 · AnimalsExotic Feline Rescue CenterINSYNC EXOTIC INC: $194,452 · AnimalsINSYNC EXOTIC INCASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC: $39,000 · AnimalsASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INCGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $23,000 · Animals+6 more: $82,628 · Animals+6 moreBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $79,110 · Human ServicesBIG CAT RESC…Manny O Productions: $30,000 · OtherFAUNALYTICS: $16,000 · OtherCarolina tiger rescue: $5,001 · Other
Animals$610,106Human Services$79,110Other$51,001

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $271,026 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetINSYNC EXOTIC INC: $194,452 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $79,110 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC: $39,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $23,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $17,577 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary: $17,100 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $14,451 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Humane World for Anim…International Fund fo…Verizon FoundationIbm International Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…Mightycause Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Humane World for Animals IncDC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humane World for Animals Inc · International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Tiger Sanctuaries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tiger Sanctuaries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%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
    1report 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

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    How do I get to Tiger Sanctuaries Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tiger Sanctuaries 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 14 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 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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