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Who funds animal shelters in New Jersey? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

Name: animal shelter grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 105 grants totaling $746,498 went to animal shelters-related work in New Jersey. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of animal shelters in New Jersey, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
DOHERTY FAMILY CHARITABLE FDN	1	$110,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	9	$105,321
NETWORK FOR GOOD	1	$87,331
Louis & Celia Nussman Foundation for the	3	$81,548
SERENNE L EVERITT FBO MT PL IRR	2	$54,753
PETSMART CHARITIES INC	2	$35,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	2	$34,500
ROBERT MCLEAN FOUNDATION TR	2	$27,600
OUR CHANGE FOUNDATION	1	$23,638
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	1	$18,240

Across all funders: 105 grants, $746,498 total, median grant $1,398.

Largest recipients in New Jersey

Recipient	Grants	Total
Mt Pleasant Animal Shelter	16	$192,772
MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC	16	$116,390
CAPE MAY CNTY ANIMAL SHELTER	1	$110,000
FRIENDS OF THE BURLINGTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER	2	$90,173
FRIENDS OF SOMERSET REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC	8	$77,980
Montville Animal Shelter	2	$21,000
SOMERSET REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER	5	$12,650
FRIENDS OF THE MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP ANIMAL SHELTER I	2	$11,352
FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC	2	$10,504
FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER IN	1	$7,500

Open federal opportunities addressing animal shelters (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in New Jersey can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "animal shelter"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: animal welfare, companion animal.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
No open, nonprofit-eligible federal opportunity currently addresses this cause in its synopsis. That is the honest answer today.

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 326 listings mentioning "animal shelters" anywhere (retrieved 2026-09-17); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.