Maryland · Nonprofit
Alley Cat Rescue Inc
Alley Cat Rescue Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,613,552 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($654,811). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Alley Cat Rescue Inc does
Mission
ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers. Nationally we operate a network of CAT ACTION TEAMS across the U.S. Our May Spay Challenge has developed a national network of veterinarians offering free or low-cost TNR services. ACR's mission is to lead the way for humane care for all cats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct care & services acr manages multiple cat colonies. This involves trapping, sterilizing, and vaccinating new colony arrivals as they are discovered, as well as feeding all of the cats and monitoring their health daily. Any cats in need of medical attention are taken to a veterinarian for care. Friendly cats and young kittens found in colonies are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and cared for in foster homes until they are adopted.
$850,857 spent$350 earned by the program35% of program spendingAdvocacy & promoting spay/neuter acr works to put an end to the myths and misinformation surrounding feral and stray cats, who are often used as scapegoats for complex environmental problems such as habitat loss causing the depletion of bird and other wildlife populations. Acr promotes the concept that all animals deserve respect and compassion, and that humane, non-lethal methods for controlling their populations, such as tnr, should be used. All acrs mailings include calls to action that will aid in safeguarding the health and lives of cats, as well as information to help reduce the human impact on birds and wildlife. Acr spearheads an annual global feral cat sterilization initiative, the feral fix challenge, which urges veterinarians to offer free or low-cost spay and neuter surgeries for feral cats, to whatever degree is possible for their individual practice. This campaign brings national attention to the need for tnr and also advances the humane management of cat overpopulation.acr also gives financial support to organizations that practice tnr in other states and countries.
$338,274 spent14% of program spendingCampaigns and outreach - acr provides the public with the most recent information on felines. We advocate for humane population control through tnr and kitten adoption, publish information on zoonotic diseases, and we dispel misinformation spread about cats. Acr has distributed over 780,000 pet trust brochures to help people plan for the future of their cats in case of emergencies.in order to lower the euthanasia rate of cats in shelters and to prevent the suffering of cats on our streets by providing them with humane care, acr provides the public with lists of clinics that offer low cost spay/ neuter programs and low cost veterinary care throughout the country. We also provide information on how people can avoid surrendering their cats to shelters.
$330,040 spent14% of program spendingNational and global programs: national cat action teams, no-kill organizations that assist groups and individuals to help domestic and feral cats. Acr provides a nationwide listing of groups and organizations,organized by state, for the benefit of interested parties who would like to help with feral cats in their area. Acr operates an african wildcat conservation program in south africa with the purpose of protecting and preserving the african wildcat (awc) species, which is threatened by habitat loss. The species is also also significantly threatened by hybridization with domestic cats. The awc is the ancestor of the domestic cat and the two species readily interbreed. Our conservation program seeks to prevent interbreeding through tnr of outdoor domestic cats who live near awc territories.
$328,724 spent13% of program spendingNewsletter and publications: acr publishes biannual newsletters and other mailings year-round to disseminate information about acrs programs and the impacts they are having in the community. These publications also highlight current events relating to cat welfare with specific actions the readers can take to help the affected cat populations.
$325,888 spent13% of program spendingEducation and Public Relations: ACRs programs and campaigns to end the killing of healthy stray and feral cats in local shelters are diverse. They range from hands-on trapping and sterilization of cats, to providing educational information about TNR and cat welfare, as well as providing resources to the community to assist them in practicing TNR and caring for all varieties of domestic cats.
$261,477 spent11% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,435,260.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+57%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Alley Cat Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $127k → $335k.
9 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Rescue Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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 Rescue Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 Rescue Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 28% — 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
44% of Alley Cat Rescue Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Alley Cat Rescue Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Rescue Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Alley Cat Rescue 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alley Cat Rescue 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 Rescue Inc?
- Alley Cat Rescue Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,613,552 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($654,811). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alley Cat Rescue Inc have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $2,613,552 in grants to Alley Cat Rescue Inc, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alley Cat Rescue Inc?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $654,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alley Cat Rescue 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 72 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