New Jersey · Nonprofit
COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC
COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,770 to it, the largest being NATURAL HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($445,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $466k
- Net assets
- $417k
What Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute Inc does
Mission
To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. Become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. Perform unbiased independent nutrition research and publish findings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Phd program university of georgia the canwi phd program and research began during 2021 was successfully concluded in 2024. The candidate completed her research in metabolomics, age stability in canine urine samples and her phd manuscript has been accepted by uga graduate school and she has received her phd. Post doctorate fellow and research our canwi funded phd will then stay on at uga college of veterinary medicine as a post doctorate fellow continuing research in age analysis in pet foods and biofluid. She will be involved in the expanded collaborations canwi has made with other researchers their labs and universities discussed below. Age research the research continues and canwi has expanded its collaboration with cancer researchers dr. David turner and victoria findley to standardize age foodtesting. The collaboration has resulted in submission of a publication evaluating different methods of testing an array of ages in pet foods. The collaborations have expanded to include the following drs. Jlia guazzelli pezzali at kansas state university; guido bosch wageningen university and vural gkmen food quality & safety research group, hacettepe university, ankara, turkey to develop…
$58,023 spent92% of program spendingCanwi continues to use facebook as its primary tool for educating pet parents and the pet invested community on companion animal nutrition and wellness through its daily posts and newsletters. We have over 10,000 followers and several of our posts have 300,000 daily hits with comments and shares.
$4,720 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,743.
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 2019 to 2020, from $283k to $491k (+74%).
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.
19% of COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $71k → $40k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE 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
COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270 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
COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC: 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 COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC?
- COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,770 to it, the largest being NATURAL HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($445,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $465,770 in grants to COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC?
- NATURAL HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 3 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