Maddie's Fund

• Maddie's Fund supports work that keeps pets and people together, animal welfare research, leadership development and industry solutions and collaborations for dogs and/or cats, so it suits US-based 501c3 public charities and government animal well-being organisations working in this space.
• Aim low: about 8 in 10 of its 743 grants fall between $1,000 and $62,000, the median grant is $5,000, and half of all grants are $5,000 or less, though its largest grant was around $1,450,000, so most applicants should pitch a modest request.
• Specific named opportunities are capped too, with up to $10,000 for Maddie's Weekly Community Conversations Grant Award and up to $4,000 for the Animal Welfare Professionals community.
• Most funding is by invitation, as Maddie's Fund identifies potential applicants through year-round research and engagement, so this is a relationship-led funder; it also runs monthly opportunities such as Maddie's Pet Forum and Community Conversations (live or on demand) that groups can apply to directly, and 70% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had already funded in its two previous filings, so existing relationships matter.
• Individuals are not funded, and any applicant taken on must be ready to publish annual statistics (shelters must also publish their success benchmark and calculation formula) and report how funds were spent and the results.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity · 2023 vision: human and animal well-being
  $1,466,0002024 tax year
• San Francisco Spca · 2022 - 2025 comet program
  $1,158,7672024 tax year
• Uc Davis Foundation · Behavioral euthanasia study
  $1,137,3452024 tax year
• Cornell University · Maddie's shelter medicine program, years 20 - 24 continuation grant
  $935,0002024 tax year
• Humane Rescue Alliance · Community conversations steering committee 2024-25
  $878,9932024 tax year
• University of Wisconsin-Madison · Maddie's clinical instructor
  $827,0142024 tax year
• Best Friends Animal Society · 2022 - 2025 shelter embed program
  $750,0002024 tax year
• University of Tennessee · Aligncare's 5-year strategic plan through 2029
  $704,9832024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.