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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
19
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k111 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
$1,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$3,600
NORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$3,600
SNOW LEOPARD TRUST$3,500
SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC$3,000
BLACKFOOT ANIMAL SHELTER & RESCUE$3,000
COLORADO HORSE RESCUE$3,000
NORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$3,000
JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC$3,000
SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER$3,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC - PACIFIC MARINE MAMMA: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $28k → 10%COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $14k → 8%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $24k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC - PACIFIC MARINE MAMMA: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $28k → 10%COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $13k → 8%GARFIELD COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 10%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $22k → 15%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $26k → 10%COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $13k → 8%GARFIELD COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 10%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $22k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC - PACIFIC MARINE MAMMA: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $26k → 10%COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $12k → 8%GARFIELD COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 10%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $18k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC - PACIFIC MARINE MAMMA: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $26k → 10%COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $9k → 8%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $14k → 15%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10k → 10%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $26k → 10%DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $10k → 12%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 15%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $9k → 10%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 15%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 15%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 15%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $12k → 15%SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $10k → 15%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $26k → 10%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $36k → 11%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $24k → 10%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $22k → 11%3 SISTERS EQUINE RESCUE: $24k → 10%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $18k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $16k → 11%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $16k → 12%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $12k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $12k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $12k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $12k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $12k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $10k → 11%HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN: $10k → 11%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

WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

67
14

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • 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%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
2
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
3
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
4
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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5
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
6
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
7
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
8
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
9
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
10
Baby Gunns Animal Rescue
Animals
11
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
12
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
55/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

3 Sisters Equine Rescue: $254,450 · Animals3 Sisters Equine RescueSPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $200,620 · AnimalsSPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUEJourney Home Animal Center: $126,000 · AnimalsJourney Home Animal CenterFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $119,600 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTERCOLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $100,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $96,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $90,000 · AnimalsBABY WARM INC: $80,000 · AnimalsNORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $74,200 · Animals+49 more: $950,600 · Animals+49 moreHEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN INC: $214,000 · OtherHEAVENLY HORSE HA…ARC-ANIMAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $31,000 · OtherARC-ANIMAL REHABI…ENCHANTMUTTS: $25,500 · OtherENCHANTMUTTSGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $18,000 · OtherDELTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,734 · OtherPetaid Colorado: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $76,700 · Other+14 moreGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $35,000 · InternationalGlobal Impact: $30,500 · InternationalNational Mill Dog Rescue: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsDOGS DESERVE BETTER INC: $9,000 · EducationTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $6,000 · HealthCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD: $1,000 · EnvironmentSave the Whales: $1,000 · Environment
Animals$2,091,470Other$395,934International$65,500Recreation & Sports$21,000Education$9,000Health$6,000Philanthropy$5,000Environment$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget3 Sisters Equine Rescue: $254,450 over 9y, 34% of budgetHEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN INC: $214,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetSPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE: $200,620 over 5y, 54% of budgetJourney Home Animal Center: $126,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $119,600 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO: $100,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $96,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBABY WARM INC: $80,000 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetNORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $74,200 over 8y, 16% of budgetCHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER: $53,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Animal Rescue Inc: $53,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $53,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $48,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $41,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $40,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNoco Humane: $36,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research: $35,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $35,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetZOOH CORNER RABBIT RESCUE: $35,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $35,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTOUCAN RESCUE RANCH INC: $33,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetHAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER: $32,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWetlands and Wildlife Care Center: $31,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Impact: $30,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $29,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBABY RHINO RESCUE: $26,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBlackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue: $26,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetAMAZING AUSSIES LETHAL WHITE RESCUE OF ARIZONA: $24,300 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES: $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRED DESERT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetUTAH FRIENDS OF BASSET HOUNDS CAROL MUNDINGER: $18,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetWOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE: $18,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPENGUINS INTERNATIONAL: $18,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $18,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $17,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRidgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc: $17,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPetaid Colorado: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILD BURRO RESCUE AND PRESERVATION PROJECT: $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC: $11,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% 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 3 Sisters Equine Rescue ↗
  • Who funds HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SPIRIT WIND HORSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Journey Home Animal Center ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds BABY WARM INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHCOAST MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds Noco Humane ↗
  • Who funds SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research ↗
  • Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds ZOOH CORNER RABBIT RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds TOUCAN RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BABY RHINO RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue ↗
  • Who funds AMAZING AUSSIES LETHAL WHITE RESCUE OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
  • Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
  • Who funds RED DESERT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FRIENDS OF BASSET HOUNDS CAROL MUNDINGER ↗
  • Who funds WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds DANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG ↗

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 Fou…Greater Good CharitiesHumane World for Anim…Colorado Gives Founda…Petsmart Charities IncThe American Society …BISSELL Pet FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Best Friends Animal S…El Pomar FoundationDorrance Family Found…Lumen Clarke M Willia…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
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
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.

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 86 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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