Minnesota · Nonprofit
Animal Humane Society
Animal Humane Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,100,955 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($3,834,140). 140 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Animal Humane Society runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 95 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cargill Foundationshared funderslocal
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationportfolio match
- Banfield Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Animal Humane Society’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 108 funders, grant income rose $869k → $5.3M.
31 of 206 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Animal Humane Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 206 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Animal Humane Society has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Animal Humane Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 49% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of Animal Humane Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of Animal Humane Society's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 206 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cargill Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banfield Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Animal Welfare Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petfinder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vca Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Best Friends Animal Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bastoni-Evans Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James M Stanton Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Patrick and Aimee Butler Familyshared fundersMN · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 108 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Animal Humane Society
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kasota Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers PC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Animal Humane Society: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Animal Humane Society?
- Animal Humane Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,100,955 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($3,834,140). 140 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Animal Humane Society have?
- IRS filings report 206 organizations giving $27,100,955 in grants to Animal Humane Society, 140 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animal Humane Society?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,834,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animal Humane Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 206funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing