Dogs Trust USA Inc
New York, NY · EIN 82-2390086. Reported 24 grants totalling $648,099 to 21 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 Dogs Trust USA Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for animal welfare (NTEE D12).
- How spread out its giving is. 21 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $21,660 and $25,046; the smallest was $7,125 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Humane Society | Louisville, KY | $99,980 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Spay and Neuter - Span | Richland, MS | $66,063 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| People Promoting Animal Welfare | Lenoir City, TN | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| SPCA of Westchester Inc | Briarcliff, NY | $25,046 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abandoned Cat Team | Stockton, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Key West, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hearts Alive Village | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humane Society of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maui Humane Society Inc | Puunene, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Sacramento, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics Inc | Naperville, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Inc | Wichita, KS | $23,020 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ruthless Kindness | Sebastopol, CA | $21,660 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Spay Neuter Initiative Partnership C-Snip | Grand Rapids, MI | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Furry Friends Network | Carlisle, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kauai Humane Society | Lihue, HI | $19,430 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blount County Animal Welfare Society | Maryville, TN | $15,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Retreat Inc | Meridian, ID | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humane Society of Aransas County | Fulton, TX | $7,125 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
3 of 21 (14%) 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.
- Humane Society of Sonoma County
SUBSIDIZED SPAY/NEUTER SERVICES FOR LOW- TO NO-INCOME DOG OWNERS - Kentucky Humane Society
DOG SPAY/NEUTER SURGERIES - Mississippi Spay and Neuter
HUMANE DOG POPULATION MANAGEMENT - People Promoting Animal Welfare
SUBSIDIZING THE COST OF SPAY/NEUTER FOR OWNED PETS - The SPCA of Westchester
FOR VETERINARY EQUIPMENT TO EQUIP THE LOW-COST CLINIC - Hearts Alive Village
TO SUPPORT THE COST OF VETERINARY TREATMENT FOR 250 DOGS OF OWNERS ON LOW INCOME, HOMELESS AND ELDERLY TRYING TO PREVENT ANIMAL SURRENDER DUE TO OWNERS' INABILITY TO AFFORD VETERINARY CARE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 21 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 | 8 | $192,410 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $229,586 | $23,330 |
| 2023 | 1 | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | $201,103 | $41,103 |
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
23% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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
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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 $25,000 -- 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 California.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Dogs Trust USA Inc'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 5 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: 1350 Avenue of the Americas 266, New York, NY, 10019.
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