Funding search · EIN 260610986 · Salem, MA

Animal Welfare Fund

Name: Animal Welfare Fund grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

41
grants reported: $440,813
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $7,660
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

3 grants matching “draft” · $35,669

$12,149
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd · Mount Airy, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$11,290
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue · Mount Airy, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$12,230
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd · Mount Airy, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Last Chance Animal Rescue4 grants · $150,438
Petconnect Rescue4 grants · $46,459
Star Gazing Farm4 grants · $35,780
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd2 grants · $24,379
Watermelon Mountain Ranch3 grants · $22,786
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue3 grants · $22,692
A New Beginning Animal Rescue3 grants · $21,682
Shadow Cat Advocates3 grants · $18,945
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare2 grants · $14,043
Northeast Animal Shelter2 grants · $13,759

Giving over time

$93,646

2021

$115,041

2022

$117,096

2023

$115,030

2024

Grant history

All 41 reported grants, largest first.

$42,432
Last Chance Animal Rescue · Waldorf, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$38,620
Last Chance Animal Rescue · White Plains, MD · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$36,083
Last Chance Animal Rescue · Waldorf, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$33,303
Last Chance Animal Rescue · Waldorf, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$13,354
Petconnect Rescue · Potomac, MD · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$12,230
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd · Mount Airy, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$12,149
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd · Mount Airy, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$11,725
Petconnect Rescue · Potomac, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$11,290
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue · Mount Airy, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$11,097
Star Gazing Farm · Boyds, MD · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$11,080
Petconnect Rescue · Potomac, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$10,300
Petconnect Rescue · Potomac, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$9,510
Watermelon Mountain Ranch · Rio Rancho, NM · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$9,293
Star Gazing Farm · Boyds, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$8,348
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare · Bowie, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$8,200
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue · Owings, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$8,151
A New Beginning Animal Rescue · Roy, UT · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$8,084
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue · Owings, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$7,855
Star Gazing Farm · Boyds, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$7,776
Northeast Animal Shelter · Salem, MA · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$7,660
Yesterday'S Kittens of Maryland · Huntingtown, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$7,624
Second Chance Animal Rescue · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$7,535
Star Gazing Farm · Boyds, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$7,353
Watermelon Mountain Ranch · Rio Rancho, NM · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$7,048
Shadow Cat Advocates · Spotsylvania, VA · 2023
To assist in the org
$6,951
A New Beginning Animal Rescue · Roy, UT · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$6,789
Shadow Cat Advocates · Spotsylvania, VA · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$6,580
A New Beginning Animal Rescue · Roy, UT · 2023
To assist in the org
$6,408
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue · Owings, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$6,027
Yesterday'S Kittens of Maryland · Huntingtown, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$5,983
Northeast Animal Shelter · Salem, MA · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$5,923
Watermelon Mountain Ranch · Rio Rancho, NM · 2023
To assist in the org
$5,695
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare · Bowie, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$5,665
H E L P Inc-a Home for Every Living Pet · Rancho Palos Verdes, CA · 2021
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$5,593
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal · Bowie, MD · 2023
To assist in the org
$5,484
Yesterday'S Kittens of Maryland · Huntingtown, MD · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$5,252
Animal Protection of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
To assist in the organization's exempt purposes.
$5,185
Please · Randallstown, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$5,108
Shadow Cat Advocates · Spotsylvania, VA · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes
$5,068
Bunny Lu Adoptions · Sterling, VA · 2023
To assist in the org
$5,002
Snip Tuck · Secretary, MD · 2024
To assist in the Organization's exempt purposes

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.