Montana · Nonprofit
ANIMEALS
ANIMEALS (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,984 to it, the largest being THE CABIN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $512k
- Net assets
- $881k
What Animeals does
Mission
Animeals' mission is to save the hungry, the helpless, the lost, and the little ones struggling to survive; to house and feed as many animals as possible; to ease the suffering of the weak and unloved; to build a no-kill community, and realize the achievement of a no-kill nation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Adoption center: the adoption center takes in cats who have lost their homes and works to find them a new home. The center houses 50 cats in shelter and 35 cats in foster care. We do not discriminate against age, size, or breed. Animeals charges a one-time adoption fee that includes spay/neuter, de-worming, micro-chip, and vaccinations. Animeals accepts any cat in imminent danger. Animeals operates a working cat relocation program to provide homes to cats that would otherwise be perpetually homeless or killed in other shelters. In 2025, Animeals took in 329 cats. Of this total 10 cats were taken in from other shelters, 19 were taken to other shelters, and 7 cats were later reclaimed by their owners. Additionally, Animeals was able to place 302 cats in new homes. 191 cats were spayed or neutered.Animeals also maintains a "honey fund" which provides money to people in need who cannot afford their veterinary bills. To receive assistance, Animeals accepts referrals directly from veterinarians. During 2024, Animeals spent $8,142 from the honey fund on 34 households. Animeals plan is to be able to acquire land to build a new shelter where the organization can more adequately fulfill the…
$444,452 spent$26,605 earned by the program90% of program spendingAnimeals began as a food bank distributing kibble to rescues and shelters across montana and northern idaho. When Animeals began sheltering felines, the food bank shifted operations to help feed companion animals and community cats. The animal food bank is stocked solely by the generosity of community members. We distribute 11,600 pounds of kibble to neighbors in need through the people in crisis program, homebound and disabled program, and feral cat program.
$49,383 spent$2,537 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $493,835.
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 $434k to $881k (+103%).
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.
97% of ANIMEALS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $17k → $115k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ANIMEALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
ANIMEALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 ANIMEALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 66% · 2019 51% · 2020 27% · 2021 44% · 2022 80% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of ANIMEALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
ANIMEALS draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ANIMEALS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ANIMEALS
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 Montana
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
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMEALS?
- ANIMEALS (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,984 to it, the largest being THE CABIN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANIMEALS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $511,984 in grants to ANIMEALS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMEALS?
- THE CABIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMEALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 26 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