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Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the

Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-0685900. Reported 54 grants totalling $4,195,838 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

51organizations funded
$29,617median reported grant
$4,195,838granted, 2020-2024
0%of grantees funded again the next year
56%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the, the IRS classifies it under animal welfare rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE D200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 56% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $29,617. Half of what it reported fell between $22,922 and $68,613; the smallest was $7,080 and the largest $1,200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

13 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,207,780 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Remedy Pet Care IncGainesville, FL$2,332,517222024
Allmons All About Animals IncBlackshear, GA$106,335222024
Thomasville Thomas County Humane Society IncThomasville, GA$74,102112023
Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter IncToccoa, GA$74,102112023
Tri-State Humane Society IncTrenton, GA$74,102112023
Dog Networking Agents CorporationEvans, GA$74,101112023
Friends of Screven County AnimalsSylvania, GA$74,101112023
Southern Journey Animal Rescue and Transport IncBlairsville, GA$74,101112023
Sweet Onion Animal Protection SocietyVidalia, GA$74,101112023
Albany Humane Society IncAlbany, GA$68,613112022
Atlanta Lab Rescue IncAtlanta, GA$68,613112022
K9 Battle Buddies IncHinesville, GA$68,613112022
Sos Rescue IncMacon, GA$68,613112022
Meriwether County Animal ServicesGreenville, GA$47,704112024
Ahimsa HouseAtlanta, GA$45,463112024
Furget Me Not Animal Rescue LLCLakeland, GA$41,987212021
City of Soperton Animal ControlSoperton, GA$41,446112022
Terrell County Animal ShelterDawson, GA$39,898112022
Flint Humane Society IncVienna, GA$38,109112021
Critical Care for Animal Angels IncByron, GA$34,777112024
Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Humane SocietyFitzgerald, GA$33,011112022
City of Ashburn Animal ShelterAshburn, GA$32,096112020
Renegade Paws RescueSavannah, GA$31,280112024
Humane Society of Moultrie and Colquitt County IncMoultrie, GA$30,000112020
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue IncTarrytown, GA$30,000112020
Castaways Pet Rescue IncDarien, GA$29,626112022
Chattooga County Animal Control ShelterSummerville, GA$29,608112024
Animal Welfare & Adoption Center of Grady CountyCairo, GA$29,203112021
Royal Animal Refuge IncTyrone, GA$27,621112024
The Humane Society for Greater Savannah IncSavannah, GA$27,165112022
City of LyonsLyons, GA$26,774112024
Whitfield County Animal ShelterDalton, GA$26,752112020
2 Hands Saving 4 Paws Humane Society IncThomson, GA$26,534112021
City of Unadilla Animal ShelterUnadilla, GA$26,454112020
Mcduffie County Animal ShelterThomson, GA$25,000112021
Murray County Animal ShelterChatsworth, GA$24,612112021
Evans County Animal ShelterClaxton, GA$24,510112022
Bryan County Animal ControlRichmond, GA$23,340112022
Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter IncLavonia, GA$22,922112021
South Georgia Equine Rescue IncWaynesville, GA$21,787112021
Best Friends Animal SocietyKanab, UT$15,359112022
Paws Atlanta IncorporatedDecatur, GA$14,462112024
Humane Society of Camden County IncSaint Marys, GA$13,593112022
Jenkins County K-9-1-1 RescueMillen, GA$12,369112020
Blakely Animal ShelterBlakely, GA$12,327112022
City of Lagrange Animal ShelterLagrange, GA$11,464112020
Washington-Wilkes Humane Shelter Association IncWashington, GA$10,900112020
Lake Oconee Humane Society IncGreensboro, GA$10,394112020
City of Nashville Dog PoundNashville, GA$9,818112021
Newnan-Coweta Humane Society IncNewnan, GA$8,379112024
White County Animal ControlCleveland, GA$7,080112020

2 of 51 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Animal Welfare
32 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202010$197,509$19,411
202110$239,972$24,468
202214$534,727$31,318
20239$1,792,811$74,101
202411$1,430,819$31,280

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

56% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. 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.

Florida
$2.3M
Georgia
$1.8M
Utah
$15K

Down to the city

Gainesville, FL
$2.3M
Atlanta, GA
$114K
Blackshear, GA
$106K
Thomasville, GA
$74K
Toccoa, GA
$74K
Trenton, GA
$74K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Paypal Charitable Giving Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsNetwork for Good14 shared recipientsGreater Good Charities9 shared recipientsPetsmart Charities Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,617 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. 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.

Related guides

Foundations funding animal welfare in FloridaEvery funder in this group

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1551 Perry Blvd Nw, Atlanta, GA, 30318.

EIN 58-0685900 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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