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Wny Furtastic Adopt a Thon Inc

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,900
Individual grant recipient$1,050
QUEEN CITY PITTIES ANIMAL RESCUE$900
Individual grant recipient$750
PETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUE$750
Individual grant recipient$600
Individual grant recipient$600
PETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUE$450
JOYFUL RESCUES$300
Individual grant recipient$300
AWESOME PAWS RESCUE$300
Individual grant recipient$300
BUFFALO CARES$150
BUFFALO CARES$150
TEN LIVES CLUB$150
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WYOMING COUNTY SPCA: $150 → 12%AWESOME PAWS RESCUE: $300 → 13%GRASP ANIMAL RESCUE: $150 → 14%PETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUE: $750 → 14%AGAINST ALL ODDZ ANIMAL ALLIANCE: $150 → 16%JOYFUL RESCUES: $300 → 19%AWESOME PAWS RESCUE: $150 → 13%PETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUE: $450 → 14%AKRON CANINE RESCUED ANGELS: $150 → 13%BUFFALO UNDERDOGS: $4k → 13%TEN LIVES CLUB: $150 → 13%BUFFALO UNDERDOGS: $600 → 13%ALLIE & PALS: $1k → 13%ALLIE & PALS: $150 → 13%QUEEN CITY PITTIES ANIMAL RESCUE: $900 → 13%BUDDY'S SECOND CHANCE: $750 → 13%PAWSITIVE FOR HEROES: $150 → 13%BUDDY'S SECOND CHANCE: $300 → 13%BUFFALO CARES: $150 → 13%BUFFALO CARES: $150 → 13%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.
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 field
03the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
1/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,200 · OtherPETS ALIVE WNY ANIMAL RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $1,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientQUEEN CITY PITTIES ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $900 · OtherQUEEN CITY PITTIES ANIMAL RESCUE INC+3 more: $600 · Other+3 moreAWESOME PAWS RESCUE: $450 · AnimalsAWESOME PAWS …JOYFUL RESCUES INC: $300 · AnimalsJOYFUL RESCUE…AGAINST ALL ODDS ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $150 · AnimalsAGAINST ALL O…TEN LIVES CLUB INC: $150 · AnimalsTEN LIVES CLU…WYOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $150 · AnimalsWYOMING COUNT…Akron Canine Rescued Angels: $150 · AnimalsAkron Canine …
Other$10,350Animals$1,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAWESOME PAWS RESCUE: $450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOYFUL RESCUES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAkron Canine Rescued Angels: $150 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Network for GoodDC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Wny Furtastic Adopt a Thon Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wny Furtastic Adopt a Thon Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Wny Furtastic Adopt a Thon 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 15 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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