How much does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation give?

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $214,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (96%), International (1%), Environment (1%).

Who are Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 3 Sisters Equine Rescue ($254k), Heavenly Horse Haven Inc ($214k), Spirit Wind Horse Rescue ($201k).

Does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Animal Assistance Foundation, Greater Good Charities, Humane World for Animals Inc.

Where is Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation based?

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation is based in DE.

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Delaware · Private foundation

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation

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.

$215k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 112
Grants FY2025: 50
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $28,200
Organizations funded a year: 50 to 56; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 19
Total assets, FY2025: $1.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	51	$210k	4%
FY2024	50	$222k	0%
FY2023	52	$298k	8%
FY2022	53	$314k	4%
FY2021	56	$301k	5%
FY2020	56	$308k	11%
FY2019	56	$300k	9%
FY2018	56	$286k	23%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$2.5MInternational$36kEnvironment$32kHealth$13kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Benefit$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
3 Sisters Equine Rescue	$254,450	9	34%
Heavenly Horse Haven Inc	$214,000	8	11%
Spirit Wind Horse Rescue	$200,620	5	54%
Journey Home Animal Center	$126,000	9	3%
Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center	$119,600	9	1%
Colorado Puppy Rescue of Colorado	$100,000	9	9%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$96,000	7	0%
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc	$90,000	9	0%
Baby Warm Inc	$80,000	9	8%
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center	$74,200	8	16%

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All grantees of Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
3 Sisters Equine Rescue	$254,450	9	34%
Heavenly Horse Haven Inc	$214,000	8	11%
Spirit Wind Horse Rescue	$200,620	5	54%
Journey Home Animal Center	$126,000	9	3%
Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center	$119,600	9	1%
Colorado Puppy Rescue of Colorado	$100,000	9	9%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$96,000	7	0%
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc	$90,000	9	0%
Baby Warm Inc	$80,000	9	8%
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center	$74,200	8	16%
Cheyenne Animal Shelter	$53,500	9	0%
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc	$53,000	9	1%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc	$53,000	9	0%
Second Chance Humane Society Inc	$48,500	9	0%
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc	$41,000	9	0%
International Animal Rescue US Inc	$40,200	5	1%
Noco Humane	$36,900	9	0%
SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research	$35,500	8	0%
Giraffe Conservation Foundation USA	$35,000	8	0%
Zooh Corner Rabbit Rescue	$35,000	9	3%
Colorado Horse Rescue	$35,000	9	1%
Toucan Rescue Ranch Inc	$33,500	9	2%
Hawaii Wildlife Center	$32,000	9	1%
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center	$31,000	9	1%
Sarvey Wildlife Care Center	$29,000	7	0%
Baby Rhino Rescue	$26,000	7	5%
Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue	$26,000	6	3%
Enchantmutts	$25,500	9	n/a
Amazing Aussies Lethal White Rescue of Arizona	$24,300	9	7%
Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles	$23,000	8	0%
Animal Humane Association of New Mexico Inc	$22,000	9	0%
National Mill Dog Rescue	$21,000	3	0%
Red Desert Humane Society Inc	$19,000	9	2%
Utah Friends of Basset Hounds Carol Mundinger	$18,500	8	2%
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre	$18,000	8	1%
Danbury Animal Welfare Society	$18,000	9	0%
Penguins International	$18,000	6	13%
Gunnison Valley Animal Welfare Leag	$18,000	9	3%
National Great Pyrenees Rescue Inc	$17,000	8	0%
The Marine Mammal Center	$17,000	9	0%
Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc	$17,000	9	0%
Delta Humane Society	$15,734	8	n/a
Petaid Colorado	$15,000	2	0%
Arc-Animal Rehabilitation Center Inc	$13,000	3	n/a
Wild Burro Rescue and Preservation Project	$12,000	3	1%
Nevada Humane Society	$12,000	9	0%
Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc	$11,000	6	0%
Heart of the Valley Inc	$11,000	9	0%
International Snow Leopard Trust	$10,500	3	0%
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children	$9,000	9	0%
Dogs Deserve Better Inc	$9,000	9	0%
Therapony	$7,000	6	2%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc	$7,000	7	0%
Summit Dog Rescue	$6,500	1	5%
Mountain Pet Rescue	$6,000	5	1%
Good Samaritan Pet Adoption Center Inc	$6,000	3	14%
Save the Manatee Club Inc	$6,000	6	0%
Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary Inc	$6,000	6	5%
The California Wildlife Center	$6,000	4	0%
Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Inst	$5,200	1	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Snake River Animal Shelter Inc	$5,000	2	1%
Maui Humane Society	$4,500	3	0%
Denkai Animal Sanctuary	$4,000	1	1%
City of Idaho Falls	$3,000	3	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Friends of the Australian Koala Foundation Inc	$2,000	2	n/a
Surface Creek Animal Shelter	$2,000	1	1%
Brambley Hedge Rabbit Rescue	$2,000	1	2%
Savage Hart Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Humane Society of Moffat County	$2,000	2	n/a
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society Ltd	$1,000	1	0%
Unconditional Inc	$1,000	1	0%
North Valley Animal Disaster Group	$1,000	1	0%
Save the Whales	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.

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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.

Animal Assistance FoundationCO26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Animal Assistance Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Humane World for Animals Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Best Friends Animal Society · El Pomar Foundation · Dorrance Family Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams 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.

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About Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation

How much does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation give?: Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $214,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (96%), International (1%), Environment (1%).
Who are Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 3 Sisters Equine Rescue ($254k), Heavenly Horse Haven Inc ($214k), Spirit Wind Horse Rescue ($201k).
Does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Animal Assistance Foundation, Greater Good Charities, Humane World for Animals Inc.
Where is Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation based?: Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation is based in DE.