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ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA

ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,679 to it, the largest being THE ALLIANCE FOR COMPANION ANIMALS INC ($287,141). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$386k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$812k
Net assets
$1.1M
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Animal Defense League of Arizona does

Mission

The mission of the Animal Defense League of Arizona is to protect and defend arizona's animals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. See schedule ocompanion animalsthe spay neuter hotline- provides spay/neuter services for pets and outdoor cats in arizona.adla's telephone and web based spay/neuter hotline referral service continued statewide operations in 2023. It made referrals to pet spay and neuter programs and clinics throughout arizona. Spay neuter hotline's largest operation provides trap, neuter, return (" tnr") services in maricopa county, scheduling appointments at multiple veterinary clinics, lending humane traps and coaching caregivers on how to successfully trap cats. Adla fixed 8255 outdoor cats in 2023. We also continued to work closely with three municipalities and others to provide trap, neuter, return services in their communities and provided referrals for other trap, neuter, return programs around the state. The hotline also made referrals to pet owners who needed low cost spay/ neuter or free services and, in graham county provided vouchers free spay neuter services at the desert cross clinic in thatcher. Together we helped 85 families, spaying and neutering a total of 74 cats and 59 dogs for them. Through adla's membership in the alliance for companion animals, it joined other organizations…

    $491,922 spent$11,920 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $491,922.

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 ($497k) Expenses 100 ($502k) Net assets 100 ($108k)2018 Revenue 89 ($442k) Expenses 88 ($440k) Net assets 102 ($110k)2019 Revenue 80 ($399k) Expenses 84 ($423k) Net assets 80 ($86k)2020 Revenue 84 ($417k) Expenses 80 ($402k) Net assets 93 ($101k)2021 Revenue 100 ($497k) Expenses 92 ($460k) Net assets 128 ($138k)2022 Revenue 100 ($498k) Expenses 104 ($521k) Net assets 106 ($115k)2023 Revenue 304 ($1.5M) Expenses 101 ($505k) Net assets 1036 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 78 ($386k) Expenses 89 ($447k) Net assets 980 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (89)Net assets (980)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 2022 to 2023, from $130k to $1.2M (+795%).

$122k
$120k
$104k
$116k
$159k
$130k
$1.2M
$1.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 25% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
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$2k
’18
−$24k
’19
$14k
’20
$38k
’21
−$23k
’22
$1.0M
’23
−$61k
’24
6.1
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0001010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $162k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA’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 DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA.

35%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 64% · 2019 38% · 2020 56% · 2021 28% · 2022 60% · 2023 37% — 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

57% of ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

74% of ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

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

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA is better cushioned than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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 DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA?
ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,679 to it, the largest being THE ALLIANCE FOR COMPANION ANIMALS INC ($287,141). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $811,679 in grants to ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA?
THE ALLIANCE FOR COMPANION ANIMALS INC is the largest funder on record, with $287,141 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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