Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE
BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,872 to it, the largest being STEWART ALEXANDER MD FDN TR UDEED ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $692k
What Better Days Animal League does
Mission
Better Days Animal League is a non-profit animal organization with an adoption center in Chambersburg, PA. Each year, many cats and kittens come to our rescue in hopes of finding their "forever" homes. We are committed to providing abused, abandoned and neglected cats the love and care they so rightly deserve until the day they are adopted. BDAL continues to serve our community without paid administrative staff. Due to the overwhelming need for low cost spay/neuter services in our area, BDAL has focused on providing transportation to available TNR clinics and sponsoring clinics with our local veterinary offices. Our intent is to help reduce cat overpopulation in our community by preventing as many unwanted litters as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Better Days Animal League is a non-profit animal rescue and sanctuary located in Chambersburg, PA. We offer veterinary care, love and support, food and shelter to adoptable and unadoptable animals. We do not euthanize animals for space. Since our inception in 2007, BDAL has taken more than 5,800 animals into our care and found loving homes for almost all of them. BDAL receives no direct government assistance and relies on donations and sponsorships from individuals and businesses. We also hold fund raising activities throughout the year. BDAL operates a thrift store in Chambersburg to supplement the expenses of operating the rescue. The store also serves as an adoption center. We are dedicated to the principle that all life must be treated with value, dignity and respect. Our wish is that one day all companion animals will be in loving homes and not living in shelters.
$46,537 spent$109,876 earned by the program82% of program spendingBetter Days assisted with spay and neuter of 363 cats in 2025 and since 2020, our Trap Neuter Return TNR Program has surpassed 2,800 cats. In 2025, we also found loving homes for 36 cats and kittens through our Adoption Program.
$10,285 spent$6,270 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,822.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $260k to $488k (+88%).
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.
38% of BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE’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. 1 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $451 → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE’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
BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 91% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE?
- BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,872 to it, the largest being STEWART ALEXANDER MD FDN TR UDEED ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,872 in grants to BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE?
- STEWART ALEXANDER MD FDN TR UDEED is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER DAYS ANIMAL LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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