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ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC

ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,404 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($306,220). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$823k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$496k
Net assets
$3.8M
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation of Winston-Salem Inc does

Mission

Aarf is a nonprofit organization serving the winston-salem area dedicated to finding loving homes for dogs and cats through rescue, foster care, veterinary services, adoption, and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Aarf aids homeless and helpless cats and dogs in the greater winston-salem area; providing rescue & adoption services, information and education, while encouraging the human/animal bond.

    $475,657 spent$82,678 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $475,657.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($258k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($199k)2018 Revenue 145 ($374k) Expenses 156 ($350k) Net assets 129 ($256k)2019 Revenue 438 ($1.1M) Expenses 142 ($318k) Net assets 539 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 191 ($493k) Expenses 169 ($381k) Net assets 596 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 681 ($1.8M) Expenses 233 ($524k) Net assets 1215 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 723 ($1.9M) Expenses 304 ($683k) Net assets 1808 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 223 ($577k) Expenses 282 ($633k) Net assets 1780 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 232 ($599k) Expenses 292 ($655k) Net assets 1785 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 319 ($823k) Expenses 270 ($608k) Net assets 1916 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (319)Expenses (270)Net assets (1916)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 $2.5M to $3.7M (+49%).

$199k
$257k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$2.5M
$3.7M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’17
$24k
’18
$813k
’19
$112k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$1.2M
’22
−$57k
’23
−$56k
’24
$215k
’25
12
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.

Chief executive

Carly Cockerham

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed71110161612101215
Joined·+9+4+6+1+2+4+3+7
No longer listed·55016614
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $94k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC’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

ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84% 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 ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC.

62%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 65% · 2020 69% · 2021 74% · 2022 65% · 2023 82% — 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

36% of ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

82% of ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM 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 $88k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

WA
NY
CT
AZ
NC
TX

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

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’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC?
ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,404 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($306,220). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $496,404 in grants to ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC?
The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $306,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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