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CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC

CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,145 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($10,383). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$150k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$229k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Chesapeake Feline Association Inc does

Mission

Cfa is an all volunteer 501c3 no kill feline organization committed to creating a better world for cats and kittens by providing feline population control services through spayneuter shelter and adoption tnr program - stray and abandoned cats and kittens are provided food veterinary care lodging at cfas shelter or in foster homes and placed for adoption shelter - long term foodlodgingmedical care and adoption total number of adoption 403

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Tnr program

    $22,330 spentof which $22,330 as grants
    24% of program spending
  2. Shelter and adoption

    $69,969 spent
    76% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,299.

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 ($218k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($156k)2020 Revenue 74 ($163k) Expenses 85 ($138k) Net assets 157 ($245k)2021 Revenue 83 ($181k) Expenses 108 ($176k) Net assets 161 ($250k)2022 Revenue 75 ($164k) Expenses 130 ($211k) Net assets 106 ($165k)2023 Revenue 40 ($87k) Expenses 64 ($104k) Net assets 150 ($234k)2024 Revenue 57 ($125k) Expenses 85 ($139k) Net assets 133 ($208k)2025 Revenue 69 ($150k) Expenses 80 ($130k) Net assets 147 ($229k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (69)Expenses (80)Net assets (147)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 2021 to 2022, from $309k to $202k (−35%).

$249k
$249k
$309k
$202k
$268k
$221k
$230k
2017202020212022202320242025
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
$24k
’20
$5k
’21
−$47k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$14k
’24
$21k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

2017202020212022
Listed6654
Joined··+1+1
No longer listed··22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

71% 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 CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC.

29%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 60% · 2022 42% · 2023 72% — 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 CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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

71% of CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states.

NY
SD
CA
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59k on record.

State$59k
Top programs
  • Grant$59k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION 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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC?
CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,145 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($10,383). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $36,145 in grants to CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC?
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESAPEAKE FELINE ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 9 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