Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Animal Friends Inc
Animal Friends Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,754,250 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($1,088,303). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Animal Friends Inc does
Mission
To rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in crisis, ensure healthy pets through education, advocacy, and affordable services, and inspire a community where the animal-human bond is celebrated and nurtured.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lifesaving Operations-In the current year, Animal Friends rescued 1,523 animals through transport and admissions and provided superior veterinary care, behavioral training, and shelter while finding loving homes for 1,458 homeless animals. Our live release rate was 95%. Contributions associated with this activity were $314,551.
$3,994,358 spent52% of program spendingFriends for Life -Provide the resources to those in need to enable them to keep their pets in their homes where they belong. In the current year, we provided 3,599 spay/neuter surgeries, bringing the total to over 179,000 surgeries since the program inception. We also provided 15,794 low-cost vaccines, 4,488 wellness appointments, and 204,098 pounds of free pet food. Without these free and subsidized services, many families struggling financially could not have afforded to provide this level of care to their companion animals and many may have faced the very difficult decision of relinquishment. This program also nurtures and promotes the animal-human bond by offering an array of programs that provide humane education, therapeutic support, and a helping hand to those in our community who are struggling. This year, we engaged 4,661 young animal lovers with summer camps, classes, events and other offerings for youth, facilitated 102,762 interactions with the healing power of our Therapets teams, and served 3,619 veterans and active military members through specialized adoptions and other supportive services, and provided training to 4,981 on humane and positive reinforcement…
$3,760,342 spent48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,754,700.
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 2023 to 2024, from $28M to $30M (+8%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 13% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Animal Friends Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kathleen Beaver
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Fragasso
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $807k → $826k.
17 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Friends Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
Animal Friends Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 Animal Friends Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 28% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 21% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of Animal Friends Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of Animal Friends Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Animal Friends Inc is better cushioned than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Animal Friends 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Animal Friends 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 Animal Friends Inc?
- Animal Friends Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,754,250 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($1,088,303). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Animal Friends Inc have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $7,754,250 in grants to Animal Friends Inc, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animal Friends Inc?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,088,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animal Friends Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 135 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