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TT'S Animal Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

TT'S Animal Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0149% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$47kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$2kHealth$2kArts & Culture$570Public Benefit$6Other$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$499k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South Coastal Animal Health$8,247
Individual grant recipient$2,870
Moby Kit Rescure$2,150
Individual grant recipient$1,745
Pieper-Olson Veterinary Hospital$1,500
Missing Dogs of Mass$1,500
Quincy Animal Shelter$1,400
VEG ER for Pets$1,210
143 Veterinary Services$1,157
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$735
Scituate Animal Shelter$605
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAY GOODBYE AT HOME: $545 → 7%OLD DERBY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 8%Lowell Humane: $1k → 8%Missing Dogs of Mass: $2k → 10%VEG ER for Pets: $1k → 16%Alley Katz Rescue: $2k → 6%Starfish Kittens Rescue: $1k → 9%GUATEMALA HOPE: $8k → 17%Pieper-Olson Veterinary Hospital: $2k → 7%VINTAGE PET RESCUE: $1k → 14%CORDELE ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $2k → 25%JADES PAWS: $600 → 20%MORRIS VET: $986 → 21%EVERY PAW RESCUE - DR MILLER VET CLINIC: $914 → 24%ALLY CAT RESCUE: $500 → 11%Wendell Vetinary Clinic: $899 → 10%TINA RANDALL: $1k → 8%Lowell Humane: $500 → 8%MISSING DOGS OF MASS: $500 → 10%VEG BOSTON VET: $660 → 16%MEADOW BROOKS ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $800 → 6%GUATEMALA HOPE: $5k → 17%Vintage Pet Rescue: $600 → 14%Black Shear Vet: $700 → 25%WILLARD VET: $2k → 7%FACT spay wagon: $13k → 8%Eddies Wheels: $695 → 8%KATHLEEN TATRO: $767 → 8%Missing Dogs of Mass: $500 → 10%Moby Kit Rescure: $2k → 11%MSPCA: $5k → 16%Quincy Animal Shelter: $1k → 7%QUINCY ANIMAL SHELTER: $815 → 7%Yorkie Inc: $1k → 11%Care Credit: $3k → 8%CAME TOGETHER ANIMAL CLINIC: $525 → 16%South Coastal Animal Health: $8k → 7%Scituate Animal Shelter: $605 → 8%SOUTH COASTAL ANIMAL HEALTH: $6k → 7%AMANDA EDDY: $565 → 8%VCA Weymouth: $3k → 7%VCA WEYMOUTH: $2k → 7%South Coastal Animal Health: $2k → 7%NORWELL VET HOSPITAL: $964 → 8%Jm Pet: $1k → 8%FACT SPRAY WAGON: $7k → 7%FACT SPRAY WAGON: $4k → 7%143 Veterinary Services: $1k → 7%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

NH
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
RI
MO
MD
SC
LA
GA
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 18 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
36

Total granted

$74k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+772%

Still filing today

22%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • Quincy Animal Shelter Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +30%
  • VP
    Vintage Pet Rescue
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • OD
    OLD DERBY ANIMAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • RB
    Robert Barksdale Dog PT
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 74 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

South Coastal Animal Health: $16,145 · OtherSouth Coastal Animal HealthGUATEMALA HOPE: $13,613 · OtherGUATEMALA HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $13,030 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,310 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCare Credit: $5,972 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,127 · Other+61 more: $48,462 · Other+61 moreMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,099 · AnimalsMASSACHUSE…Quincy Animal Shelter Inc: $2,215 · AnimalsQuincy Ani…MOBY KIT RESCUE INC: $2,150 · AnimalsMOBY KIT R…Vintage Pet Rescue: $1,600 · AnimalsVintage Pe…Alley Cat Rescue Inc: $625 · Animals+1 more: $64 · AnimalsYORKIES INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$113,659Animals$11,753Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,099 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQuincy Animal Shelter Inc: $2,215 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOBY KIT RESCUE INC: $2,150 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVintage Pet Rescue: $1,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORKIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE: $64 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.

  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Quincy Animal Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOBY KIT RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vintage Pet Rescue ↗
  • Who funds YORKIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Alley Cat Rescue 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 TT'S Animal Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TT'S Animal Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%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
    6get 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 TT'S Animal Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to TT'S Animal Foundation 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 74 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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