Maine · Nonprofit
ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND
ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND (Maine) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,656 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($238,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland does
Mission
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland envisions a community where pets and people can share a healthy bond of love and kindness. We are an open-admission shelter, giving every pet hope for a new beginning and a second chance. We strive to be leaders in the animal welfare sector and are committed to building respect, dignity, kindness, and equality in the community and in the world.The Organization operates an Animal Shelter for companion animals serving the Greater Portland Metropolitan Area offering services to include adoptions; low cost spay/neuter; and humane education camps/workshops.
$4,387,253 spent$1,147,846 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,387,253.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $20M (+23%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $73k → $213k.
16 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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 REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 36% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 16% — 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
33% of ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 23 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 14 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 REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND?
- ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND (Maine) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,656 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($238,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $2,158,656 in grants to ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $238,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 86 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