Maryland · Nonprofit
Alley Cat Allies Inc
Alley Cat Allies Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 217 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,273,239 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($835,190). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 217
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Alley Cat Allies Inc does
Mission
To transform and develop communities to protect and improve the lives of cats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy - the organizations advocacy programs empower and mobilize citizens (usa and worldwide) to engage elected officials to pass new laws that protect and improve the lives of cats and other animals; reform animal shelters by implementing nonlethal, evidence-based policies. Stop cruelty to cats campaign protects cats and public health by creating infrastructure to reverse the epidemic of violence toward cats and reform the failed judicial system to increase prosecution of animal cruelty.
$7,724,166 spent69% of program spendingHumane care, humane education, and outreach - the organization provides multiple programs for direct care for animals, including veterinary treatment, spay and neuter, vaccinations, treatment of illnesses, emergency surgery; provision of grants, food, and supplies including as part of disaster response; delivery of food for distribution to families in need. Extensive online resources and in-person outreach bring humane education of cats and other animals to grassroots groups, individuals, and leaders to empower them to improve their communities.
$2,994,582 spentof which $421,966 as grants27% of program spendingLaw and policy - the organization advocates for nonlethal cat management laws and policies rooted in evidence-based science and compassionate conservation, including trap-neuter return,return-to-field, shelterneuter- return ordinances. Mobilize grassroots groups and individuals to advocate for cat declaw bans; policies that ban lethal cat control, recission of feeding bans, and other laws that improve the lives of cats and other animals and and humans and improve quality of life, public health, and safety.
$397,781 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,116,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $30M to $40M (+31%).
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.
95% of Alley Cat Allies Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Justin Oravetz
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $206k → $413k.
25 of 217 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Alley Cat Allies Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 217 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
Alley Cat Allies Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 Alley Cat Allies Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 37% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Alley Cat Allies Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of Alley Cat Allies Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states 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
Alley Cat Allies Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Alley Cat Allies Inc
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alley Cat Allies Inc: 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 Alley Cat Allies Inc?
- Alley Cat Allies Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 217 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,273,239 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($835,190). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alley Cat Allies Inc have?
- IRS filings report 217 organizations giving $4,273,239 in grants to Alley Cat Allies Inc, 129 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alley Cat Allies Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $835,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alley Cat Allies Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 217 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing