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Wings of Rescue Inc

Flies large scale transports of at-risk shelter pets from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to brick and mortar shelters where there is empty kennel space and where no local shelter pets are displaced by our flights.

$662k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$511k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$2.6MHealth$50k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $642,606, the rows itemized in this filing. The $662,444 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,838 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $511k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FETCH INC$510,606
Sato Project$25,000
Paws for Life K9 Rescue$25,000
Humane Society of Tulsa$15,000
IMPETUS$15,000
Friends of Miami Animals Foun$15,000
Hillsborough County Pet Resou$10,000
Humane Society of North Texas$10,000
Cache Humane Society$10,000
Helping Paws Across Borders$7,000
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MINI THERAPY HORSES: $50k → 14%New Beginnings for Merced Cou: $10k → 19%Sato Project: $25k → 20%Humane Society of North Texas: $20k → 11%Helping Paws Across Borders: $7k → 10%Humane Society of Tulsa: $15k → 15%Hillsborough County Pet Resou: $10k → 13%Friends of Miami Animals Foun: $20k → 15%IMPETUS: $15k → 11%FETCH INC: $736k → 10%Cache Humane Society: $10k → 12%Angel Wing Acres Welfare Soci: $9k → 26%ACADIANA ANIMAL AID: $9k → 17%Paws for Life K9 Rescue: $25k → 14%Humane Society of North Texas: $15k → 11%Humane Society of Tulsa: $15k → 15%Humane Society of Tampa Bay: $10k → 13%Friends of Miami Animals Foun: $15k → 15%FETCH INC: $639k → 10%Humane Society of North Texas: $10k → 11%FETCH INC: $511k → 10%FETCH INC: $449k → 10%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

NY
OR
IN
CA
UT
MO
NM
OK
LA
MS
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 4 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+72%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthOther
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

  • F
    FETCH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +32% · 100% of their budget
  • HS
    Humane Society of North Texas
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue -19%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • MT
    MINI THERAPY HORSES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +11%
  • AB
    ANIMAL BALANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
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
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
2
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
3
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion
4
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
5
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
6
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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7
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
10
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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11
Operation Pawpulation

The mission of Operation Pawpulation is to offer support and resources, including low-cost and no-cost spay/neuter, vaccinations and microchips in order to save lives by reducing the number of homeless pets in our community. Spaying and…

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Indianapolis; the most unlike its peers is Angel Wing Acres Animal Welfare Soc Lombas. 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

19 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FETCH: $2,334,644 · AnimalsFETCH+14 more: $251,336 · Animals+14 moreMINI THERAPY HORSES: $50,000 · HealthANIMAL BALANCE: $25,000 · OtherCACHE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · Other
Animals$2,585,980Health$50,000Other$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFETCH: $2,334,644 over 4y, 100% of budgetMINI THERAPY HORSES: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR PET PROGRESS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCACHE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FOR MERCED COUNTY AN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHillsborough County Pet Resources Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAcadiana Animal Aid: $8,900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHELPING PAWS ACROSS BORDERS: $7,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $6,831 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Petco LoveGreater Good CharitiesBanfield FoundationBest Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…The American Society …Petsmart Charities IncVca CharitiesThe Duffield Family F…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
Petco LoveTX17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Banfield Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Vca Charities · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Wings of Rescue Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wings of Rescue Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wings of Rescue Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wings of Rescue Inc 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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