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Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry

Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,630 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($19,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$184k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$11k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry does

Mission

Advocates 4 Animals A4A Pet Pantry is a 100% volunteer 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to keeping animals with their families during financial hardship by providing pet food and spay-neuter assistance. We also operate an adoption program caring for pregnant nursing canine moms and puppies ensuring all are fully vetted spayed neutered and microchipped.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. This program rescues pregnant dogs vulnerable puppies and urgent medical cases providing comprehensive veterinary care and a safe environment to heal and grow. By ensuring every animal is fully treated spayed or neutered and placed into a loving home it saves lives while preventing future litters.

    $123,896 spent$140,243 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. This program prevents pet surrender by offering food support to families in need keeping pets with their families reducing shelter intake and strengthening the human-animal bond.

    $63,422 spent$27,900 earned by the program
    34% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $187,318.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2021 Revenue 134 ($133k) Expenses 132 ($129k) Net assets 142 ($5k)2022 Revenue 167 ($166k) Expenses 158 ($155k) Net assets 415 ($16k)2023 Revenue 35 ($35k) Expenses 30 ($29k) Net assets 551 ($21k)2024 Revenue 169 ($168k) Expenses 168 ($165k) Net assets 361 ($14k)2025 Revenue 185 ($184k) Expenses 191 ($187k) Net assets 279 ($11k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (185)Expenses (191)Net assets (279)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5k to $19k (+238%).

$4k
$5k
$19k
$21k
$14k
$11k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

9% of Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’20
$4k
’21
$11k
’22
$5k
’23
$3k
’24
−$3k
’25
0.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2021202220242025
Listed3335
Joined·+0·+4
No longer listed·0·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $570.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry.

73%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.

NY
CA
AZ
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry?
Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,630 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($19,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $26,630 in grants to Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Advocates 4 Animals Pet Food Pantry find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing