Illinois · Nonprofit
CATS IN ACTION NFP
CATS IN ACTION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5
- Net assets
- $370k
What Cats in Action Nfp does
Mission
Cats in Action's mission is to help people help outdoor cats through TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), spay/neuter, rescue and providing veterinary care. We primarily help cats and the people who care for them in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal welfare outreach including TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), low-cost spay/neuter and rescue. Transfer/rescue from open-intake shelters. Foster, adoption and transfer programs for rescued animals. Requirement that animals be returned if adoption is unsuccessful. Expenses include veterinary care, spay/neuter, food and cat litter, humane traps and animal crates, boarding of animals when necessary. The programs is supported by volunteers and there is no expense for a physical building. Cats in Action took in 358 cats in 2025, trapped and returned 1092 cats and assisted with medical services for 20 cats and offered temporary boarding to 1 cat (total = 1471 cats). Cats in Action transferred out 253 cats to other humane organizations, adopted out 81 cats and returned 6 cats to owners. Five cats died in care and 12 cats were euthanized.
$117,054 spent$6,668 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,054.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $159k to $370k (+133%).
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.
93% of CATS IN ACTION NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Erica Roewade
Board President & Outreach Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CATS IN ACTION NFP’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CATS IN ACTION NFP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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
CATS IN ACTION NFP has grown faster 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
Organizations like CATS IN ACTION NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATS IN ACTION NFP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATS IN ACTION NFP?
- CATS IN ACTION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATS IN ACTION NFP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to CATS IN ACTION NFP.
- Who is the largest funder of CATS IN ACTION NFP?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATS IN ACTION NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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