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Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista

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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$331kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$477k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAGGLE FOUNDATION$12,000
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$10,000
AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS$5,000
THE PET FUND$5,000
DIABETIC CATS IN NEED$5,000
UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER$2,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON$2,000
FRIENDS AND VETS HELPING PETS$1,000
PAWS 4 A CURE$1,000
PROJECT STREET VET$1,000
MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC$500
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$500
THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE$500
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $2k → 7%MSPCA - ANGELL: $10k → 16%THE PET FUND: $5k → 12%THE PET CARE ASSISTANCE FUND: $8k → 10%WAGGLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%WAGGLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $5k → 8%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $5k → 13%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $2k → 7%MSPCA - ANGELL: $10k → 16%THE PET FUND: $5k → 12%THE PET CARE ASSISTANCE FUND: $5k → 10%WAGGLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $2k → 13%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $2k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER: $2k → 12%WAGGLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $2k → 13%CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%MSPCA - ANGELL: $10k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $2k → 12%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $2k → 13%CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%MSPCA - ANGELL: $10k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER: $2k → 12%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $2k → 13%CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER: $2k → 12%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIABETIC CATS IN NEED: $2k → 13%STANLEY TRAVIS FUND CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERS: $8k → 8%CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER: $2k → 12%CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 16%UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS - DBA RED ROVER: $2k → 12%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 16%MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 16%MERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS: $5k → 16%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

ME
IL
WI
MA
CT
CA
KY
NC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 16 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$324k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+50%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationOther
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

  • AV
    AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +47%
  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +63%
  • WF
    WAGGLE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ST
    STANLEY TRAVIS FUND CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERS
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +50%
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
The Pet Care Trust
Animals
2
Pet Good Samaritan Fund Inc

We are a 501 (c)(3) tax deductible organization preventing economic euthanasia by providing lifesaving monetary assistance to pets whose owners are in financial hardship.

Animals
3
Rescuing Unwanted Furry Friends
Animals
4
All About Animals Rescue

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

Animals
5
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
6
Angies Dog House

We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…

Animals
7
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
8
Sils Affordable Vet Care
Animals
9
The Amos Fund

Assistance for low income pet owners

Animals
10
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
11
Wag Again Rescue

We opened up our clinic and through the low-cost wellness we provided, we kept approximately 14,600 dogs in their homes which means they werent in shelters, the streets, or being rehomed in 2024 and provided access to low-cost care to…

Animals
12
Fix Our Ferals

Fix our ferals (dba animal fix clinic) provides affordable, excellent quality spay/neuter and other life-saving and life-changing surgeries for companion dogs, cats and community cats.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Diabetic Cats in Need Inc. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSWAGGLE FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 · AnimalsWAGGLE FOUNDATION INCMERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS INC: $27,000 · AnimalsMERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS INCDIABETIC CATS IN NEED INC: $20,000 · AnimalsDIABETIC CATS IN NEED INCTHE PET FUND: $10,000 · Animals+6 more: $20,000 · Animals+6 moreCUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherCUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY…UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $14,000 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA RED…THE PET CARE ASSISTANCE FUND: $12,500 · OtherTHE PET CARE ASSISTANCE FUNDSTANLEY TRAVIS FUND CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERS: $7,500 · OtherSTANLEY TRAVIS FUND CUMMINGS …+1 more: $2,000 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 · Education
Animals$245,000Other$86,000Education$5,000

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 budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAGGLE FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS INC: $27,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetDIABETIC CATS IN NEED INC: $20,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PET FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPaws 4 A Cure Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Shirley Shattuck Wind…The Duffield Family F…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable TrustMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable Trust · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista?

Find your warmest path to Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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