How much did Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation grant in FY2025?

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $214,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation based?

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

Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

112

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

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 FY2017–2025.

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

02FY2025 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k111 grants · $186k
$10k–50k1 grant · $28k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE	$28,200
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER	$9,400
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE AND WILDLIFE INSTITUTE INC	$5,200
GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA	$5,000
NOCO HUMANE	$4,100
COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO	$4,000
NORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER	$3,600
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER	$3,600
SNOW LEOPARD TRUST	$3,500
JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC	$3,000
BLACKFOOT ANIMAL SHELTER & RESCUE	$3,000
NORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER	$3,000
SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC	$3,000
SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER	$3,000
COLORADO HORSE RESCUE	$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 67 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

67 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+47%

Still filing today

82%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalHealthOther

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

3S
3 Sisters Equine Rescue
9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +164% · 34% of their budget
HH
HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +27%
JH
Journey Home Animal Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +76%

Funded once

CC
CRESCENT CITY MARINE MAMMAL REHABILITATION CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
SD
SUMMIT DOG RESCUE
one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -71%
DA
Denkai Animal Sanctuary
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -37%

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.

Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue

Animals

Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

Animals

Starfish Animal Rescue

Animals

Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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Wolfe Ranch Rescue

Animals

Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals

Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals

Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals

2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals

Baby Gunns Animal Rescue

Animals

Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals

Runaways Animal Rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/78

the rest of the field

13%

240,394/1,819,487

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

73 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. 73 of the 86 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/73

Grantees still filing

55/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$2,091,470Other$395,934International$65,500Recreation & Sports$21,000Education$9,000Health$6,000Philanthropy$5,000Environment$2,000

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.

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.

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

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 Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home