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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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$222kPublic Benefit$11k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $203,314, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,890,692 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,687,378 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 · 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

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%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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
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.

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

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. 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.
03Its 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
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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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
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
7
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
8
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
9
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Animals
10
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
11
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Friends Animal Society; 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 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 World Animal Protection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Animal Protection. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–24
    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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