Maine · Nonprofit
Animal Orphanage
Animal Orphanage (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,773 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($158,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $243k
- Net assets
- $627k
What Animal Orphanage does
Mission
The mission of the Animal Orphanage is to care for and adopt out the stray or abandoned animals in our local communities. It is a no kill shelter that utilizes rigorous spay/neuter activites to reduce the number of lost and abandoned animals. Every effort is made to reunite an adopt out all animals.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The Animal Orphanage has 5 staff members who rotate weekly to ensure all animals are cared for daily/nightly/weekly. The Orphanage is open 7 days a week and staff do daily/nightly checks in when the Orphanage is closed. This expense is allocated against the total revenue for the Orphanage.
$80,198 spent$166,376 earned by the program54% of program spendingMedical expenses make up over 30% of total expenses for the Animal Orphanage. Intake for all animals includes treatment for fleas and intestinal parasites,initial vet exams with rabies and distemper vaccines and boosters, as well as spay/neuter, micro- chipping, treatment and testing for Lymes and treatment for ear mites. This expense is allocated against the total revenue for the Orphanage.
$61,081 spent$166,376 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe third largest single expense for the Orphanage is the cost of running the Orphanage. These costs include food for animals, utilities, repairs and maintenance, and general office costs.
$8,518 spent$166,376 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $149,797.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $721k to $540k (−25%).
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.
56% of Animal Orphanage’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $28k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Orphanage’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 Orphanage leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Orphanage.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 80% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of Animal Orphanage'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Orphanage receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $243k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,280 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Animal Orphanage
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Orphanage: 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 Orphanage?
- Animal Orphanage (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,773 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($158,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Animal Orphanage have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $242,773 in grants to Animal Orphanage, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animal Orphanage?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $158,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animal Orphanage find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 6 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