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$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$465kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$16k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $93,170 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,487,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,394,511 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$5,868
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF BAARK INC$13,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA$10,000
BROWNSVILLE ANIMAL REGULATION AND CARE CENTER$10,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT$9,479
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA$6,613
ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY$6,167
MICHIGAN HUMANE$5,868
LOUISIANA SPCA$5,705
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS$5,566
ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC$5,486
CITY OF DALLAS$5,143
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,143
HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $740 → 5%SENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$204k · 4 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
29

Total granted

$204k
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • PR
    PET RESCUE PILOTS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $57k · revenue -12%
  • LS
    LOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • AV
    AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • CO
    CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +130%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
3
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
4
Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers Pc

Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.

Community Improvement
5
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
6
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
7
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…

Education
8
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
10
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc

Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any…

Animals
11
Flagler Humane Society Inc

We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.

Animals
12
Liberty Humane Society Inc

We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Floyd County Homeless Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%28%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/145
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,420

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.

04the grantee network

116 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/116
Grantees still filing
69/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA — $119,915 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSAPET RESCUE PILOTS — $57,000 · AnimalsPET RESCUE PILOTSAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $15,705 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $15,400 · Animals+24 more — $197,984 · Animals+24 moreCITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS — $34,860 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGEL…CITY OF BROWNSVILLE — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF BROWNSVIL…FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES — $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF DALLAS…ANIMAL BALANCE — $10,000 · OtherANIMAL BALANCELOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDERCOUNTY CLERK — $9,479 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNT…MINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARD — $5,566 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PARK …MARICOPA COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT — $5,381 · OtherMARICOPA COUNTY H…CITY OF DALLAS — $5,143 · OtherCITY OF DALLASGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $25,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAnimal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — $5,008 · Youth DevelopmentMERCER VETERINARY CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS — $3,671 · HealthSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $740 · Human Services
Animals$456,004Other$90,429Philanthropy$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Youth Development$5,008Health$3,671Human Services$1,740

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA — $119,915 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPET RESCUE PILOTS — $57,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $15,705 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $15,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $15,137 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAARK INC — $13,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA — $11,843 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Pad — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUEINC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $7,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER — $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $6,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,083 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $5,486 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $5,143 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — $5,008 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER VETERINARY CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS — $3,671 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Arlington — $824 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $740 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Best Friends Animal S…Petco LoveBanfield FoundationPetsmart Charities IncThe Duffield Family F…Greater Good CharitiesHumane World for Anim…The American Society …BISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationThe Michelson Found A…The Association for A…
Best Friends Animal SocietyUT83.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · Banfield Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement

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 Vca Charities 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your 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
    7report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vca Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Vca Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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