· Public charity
United Spay Alliance
Promote public awareness of animal welfare, develop educational and cultural products about animal welfare rights, to popularize and facilitate altering of pets in response to acute population issues in the USA.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $206,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $331,418 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,418 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Halifax Humane Society | $8,000 |
| Athens-Clarke Co Animal Serv | $8,000 |
| Pet Community Center | $8,000 |
| T-Town TNR Inc | $8,000 |
| Pounce De Leon Inc | $8,000 |
| Purrfect Partners of Mobile | $8,000 |
| Branson Humane Society | $8,000 |
| The Fix Is In | $8,000 |
| Animal Birth Control Clinic | $8,000 |
| TippedEars | $8,000 |
| CPAW NJ | $8,000 |
| Animal Outreach of Shelby Co | $8,000 |
| Operation Catnip of Richmond | $8,000 |
| Operation Kindness | $8,000 |
| Protectors of Animals Inc | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.
Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area
Caring for strays through pure fundraising
The mission of Operation Pawpulation is to offer support and resources, including low-cost and no-cost spay/neuter, vaccinations and microchips in order to save lives by reducing the number of homeless pets in our community. Spaying and…
To manage feral and stray cat populations. The process involves trapping the cats in a humane manner, getting them spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and then returning them to their original location.
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
Animal shelter and rescue
To provide spay and neuter services
Feline rescue & adoption
Animal rescue
Rescue cat and kittens and attempt to rehome them Provide Spay and neuter services for cats and kittens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Branson 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.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Communities Promoting Animal Welfare NJ ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Branson Humane Society ↗
- Who funds TIPPEDEARS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CATNIP OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATSNIP ETC ↗
- Who funds T-TOWN TNR INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIX IS IN INC ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds POUNCE DE LEON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds LUCKY'S CAT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE PET COMPASSION CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Zoomies Funny Farm ↗
- Who funds MILAM TOUCH OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Houston Cares Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Polk No Kill Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Feral Felines ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Summerlee Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Spay Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Halifax Humane Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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