Virginia · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P
ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,540 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Advocates for Abused and Abandoned Pets A3p does
Mission
A3P's mission is to promote the human-animal bond and no-kill philosophy through compassion, empathy, and education. To advocate for companion pets by Providing them with the care, nurturing, and training for placement into the 'right' home for life. And to provide sanctuary to those older, imjured, or otherwise difficult to place animals that are at risk of euthanasia. Our motto is PETS 4 LIFE.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health, welfare, and safety of animals in preparation of adoptions and careful placement of pets into the right home.
$86,342 spent87% of program spendingCoordinate and host low-cost veterinary clinics in conjunction with mobile veterinarian to provide exams and vaccines for promoting animal health and welfare within our community.
$0 spent0% of program spendingHost community events that provide benefits for Humane Education, Volunteer opportunities, Training.
$13,308 spent13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,650.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $157k to $301k (+91%).
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.
98% of ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Sherry Turner
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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 FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Against its field
ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P?
- ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,540 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,540 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P?
- THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED AND ABANDONED PETS A3P find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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