Petfinder Foundation
Tucson, AZ · EIN 87-0694641. Reported 49 grants totalling $450,800 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Petfinder Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for animal welfare (NTEE D122).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 5% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society | Philadelphia, PA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc | Asheville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Erwin Unicoi & Unicol County Animal Welfare Board | Erwin, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue Inc | Shoals, WV | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| High Plateau Humane Society | Alturas, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Hope Rescue Inc | Florissant, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great River Rescue | Bemidji, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paris Animal Welfare Society Inc | Paris, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cache Humane Society | Logan, UT | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paws Atlanta Incorporated | Decatur, GA | $13,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blind Spot Animal Sanctuary Inc | Durham, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Humane Society of Central Illinois | Normal, IL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ruff Start Rescue Inc | Princeton, MN | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary Inc | Spring Hill, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona Humane Society | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Worth Animal Care & Control | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Kindness | Carrollton, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv | Reno, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Take Paws Rescue | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brandywine Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | West Chester, PA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gerdas Equine Rescue Inc | W Townshend, VT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Refuge Center Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Animal Welfare League of Charlotte County Florida Inc | Pt Charlotte, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Companion Animals | Monroe, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gateway Pet Guardians | E Saint Louis, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Humane Society for Seattle-King Co | Bellevue, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Francis Animal Rescue of Venice Inc | Venice, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Darlington County Humane Society Inc | Hartsville, SC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ashland Animal Rescue Fund Inc | Ashland, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| County of La Department of Animal C | Long Beach, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Help the Animals Inc | Richmond, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humane Indiana Inc | Highland, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | New Orleans, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polk County Humane Society | Bolivar, MO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Suburban Humane Society | Matteson, IL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Bloomington Animal Care | Bloomington, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florence Area Humane Society | Florence, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Furry Friends Humane Inc | Jupiter, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hawaii Island Humane Society SPCA | Holualoa, HI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humane Society of Greater Kansas City | Kansas City, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muddy Paws Rescue | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Missys Haven | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pasadena Humane Society | Pasadena, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Puppy Kitty Ny City Inc | Middle Vlg, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pups Without Borders | Van Nuys, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town and Country Humane Society | Papillion, NE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
3 of 46 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society
Capital improvement grant - Arizona Humane Society
2022 Kia Pet Adoption Grant - Gerdas Equine Rescue
2022 REDI Implementation Grant - Gateway Pet Guardians
REDI Implementation Grant - Humane Society of Greater Jupiter
2022 Play Yard Renovation Grant - Humane Society of Greater Kansas Ci
Play Yard Renovation Grant
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $243,300 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $129,000 | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | $28,500 | $5,500 |
| 2024 | 2 | $50,000 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
8% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Petfinder Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 12995 N Oracle Rd Ste 141432, Tucson, AZ, 85739.
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