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World Animal Protection

WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$52k
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 FY20172025.

Animals$222kPublic Benefit$11k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $203,314 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,890,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,687,378 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$22,412
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA HUMANE$51,548
WETLANDS & WILDLIFE CARE CENTER$44,824
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$44,824
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$22,412
BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION$11,206
YES ON IP28$11,000
LUVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$10,000
TAMERLAINE SANCTUARY & PRESERVE NJ$7,500
02The need
03

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%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WETLANDS & WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $45k → 10%SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY: $22k → 11%PASADENA HUMANE: $52k → 14%YES ON IP28: $11k → 12%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $45k → 9%LUVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%TAMERLAINE SANCTUARY & PRESERVE NJ: $8k → 6%MARINE MAMMALS OF MAINE: $20k → 9%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%LUVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Grants abroad, by region — $2.7M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.7M · 99% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL WELFARE

South Asia$15k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL WELFARE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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.

1
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
4
From the Heart Animal Sanctuary
Animals
5
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
6
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
10
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and 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
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Friends Animal Society and the most unlike its peers is Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PASADENA HUMANE — $51,548 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANEWetlands and Wildlife Care Center — $44,824 · AnimalsWetlands and Wildlife Care CenterBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $44,824 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $22,412 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCALuvin Arms — $20,000 · AnimalsLuvin ArmsBunny World Foundation Inc — $11,206 · AnimalsBunny World Foundation IncTAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,500 · AnimalsMarine Mammals of Maine — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMarine Ma…YES ON IP28 — $11,000 · Other
Animals$202,314Arts & Culture$20,000Other$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $22,412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Mammals of Maine — $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetLuvin Arms — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 World Animal Protection 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.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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