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ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($229,093). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $790k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Animal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast does
Mission
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. The organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals into massachusetts from other states, rescues stray animals, provides them veterinary care and offers them for adoption to appropriate homes. The pets are all spayed/neutered prior to adoption to reduce the number of unwanted animals. The organization also offers affordable rabies clinics, and boarding services to current pet owners to help prevent abandonment due to the cost of pet care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing shelter and veterinary care to lost or abandoned pets, mostly cats and dogs, and adopting them out to appropriately matched homes. The organization completed about 290 animal adoptions during the fiscal year ended march 31, 2025.
$290,442 spent$230,433 earned by the program42% of program spendingThe organization provides quarantine services for pets being adopted locally from shelters in the southern united states. The pets are quarantined and receive a health certificate prior to entering the general public. The organization provided these services to approximately 1,825 animals during the year ended march 31, 2025.
$348,379 spent$276,400 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe organization provides animal cremation and disposal services to local vets and pet owners. The organization provided this service for approximately 260 animals during the year ended march 31, 2025.
$53,927 spent$42,785 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $692,748.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+18%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $7k → $61k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST’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 RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 61% · 2019 88% · 2020 51% · 2021 76% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% — 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
60% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
72% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST'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 $91k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST?
- ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($229,093). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $320,999 in grants to ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $229,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 15 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