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ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC

ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,418 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH FERRY SPEER FOUNDATION ($35,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$137k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$87k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Animals for Life Inc does

Mission

Further the well being and quality of life for animals in our area through rescue and rehabilitation of homeless and abused animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Animal rescue and adoption program - provide shelter and care to abused and abandoned felines and find a safe home for them. In 2024, the program adopted out 51 animals

    $86,920 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,920.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 104 ($84k) Expenses 99 ($77k) Net assets 243 ($12k)2019 Revenue 132 ($106k) Expenses 137 ($107k) Net assets 230 ($11k)2020 Revenue 190 ($153k) Expenses 145 ($113k) Net assets 1047 ($51k)2021 Revenue 231 ($186k) Expenses 167 ($131k) Net assets 2177 ($107k)2022 Revenue 80 ($65k) Expenses 138 ($108k) Net assets 1302 ($64k)2023 Revenue 77 ($62k) Expenses 94 ($74k) Net assets 1070 ($52k)2024 Revenue 170 ($137k) Expenses 131 ($102k) Net assets 1781 ($87k)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (131)Net assets (1781)Peer revenue range

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 $51k to $108k (+110%).

$5k
$12k
$11k
$51k
$108k
$67k
$56k
$91k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$7k
’18
−$657
’19
$40k
’20
$55k
’21
−$43k
’22
−$11k
’23
$35k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $8k → $7k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC’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

ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 78% · 2019 67% · 2020 59% · 2021 75% · 2022 63% · 2023 77% — 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 ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

55% of ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

IL
PA
CT
TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC?
ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,418 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH FERRY SPEER FOUNDATION ($35,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $87,418 in grants to ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC?
ELIZABETH FERRY SPEER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 11 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