Maine · Nonprofit
ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC
ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC (Maine) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,097 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($430,920). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Animal Welfare Society Inc does
Mission
Animal welfare society exists to serve as the safety net for lost and homeless pets and to provide access to affordable services and resources necessary for long term well-being, so pets and their families stay together and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1967, animal welfare society (aws) is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit animal welfare organization located in kennebunk, maine. The organization provides shelter, veterinary care, training and resources to more than 10,000 pets and community members annually. Aws operates a progressive animal shelter and adoption center on a 40 acre campus in kennebunk and serves 18 municipalities in york county as the animal control impound facility for lost and abandoned pets. Aws works with rescue groups in other parts of the country to bring companion animals to maine for adoption. Aws suite of lifesaving community programs are designed to help keep pets and their people together by providing support and resources including temporary boarding, pet food, supplies, veterinary care and assistance with behavior concerns. Additionally, aws works in collaboration with funding partners and veterinary professionals to deliver accessible spay/neuter and wellness services statewide, especially in remote, underserved areas of maine. Aws adoption center, community programs, behavior and training services are supported by a compassionate and professional staff and a team of 200+ dedicated…
$3,377,310 spent$2,062,732 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,377,310.
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 $7.5M to $9.3M (+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: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC’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. 2 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
Abigail Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $228k → $126k.
11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 51% · 2019 41% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 43% · 2023 15% — 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
50% of ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $703k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 WELFARE SOCIETY 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WELFARE SOCIETY INC?
- ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC (Maine) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,097 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($430,920). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $2,011,097 in grants to ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $430,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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