Maryland · Nonprofit
COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC
COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,481,502 to it, the largest being THE DUFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MADDIE'S FUND ($6,195,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity Inc does
Mission
To address organizational and personal biases within animal welfare. To bring diverse voices to animal welfare while also advocating for a more inclusive path to pet adoption. To use evidence-based tools, narratives and insights to inspire organizations to be more inclusive and less biased. All in an effort to save more companion animal lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Narratives: creating narratives that feature bipoc stories to combat stereotypes and share real life human animal bonding amongst people of color. This is conducted through film that produces public service announcements, short stories, documentaries and a full-length feature. Our narratives are true stories, interviews or based off our research. While we create care centers and document care's growth, we will create a library of media that will reshape the mostly white narrative in the animal welfare industry. Care centers: because care knows proximate leaders are subject matter experts on the challenges facing their communities, care is assisting these community leaders with the long-awaited support they need through grants, legal assistance and augmentation of skills. The care center model will not always include a building. Some will need access to care via transport services. Other organizations will focus on community awareness of issues related to animal care and control, spay & neuter, puppy mills and adoption. And some organizations will deliver services from within a building. Care will be there to provide start up assistance for an organization to grow through and…
$3,701,201 spentof which $101,840 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,701,201.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $7.0M (+224%).
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.
99% of COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC’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. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
James Evans
CEO
Board chair
Catherine Small
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $118k → $1.5M.
4 of 15 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 COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 96% · 2021 52% · 2022 84% · 2023 85% — 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
38% of COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
Against its field
COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC?
- COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,481,502 to it, the largest being THE DUFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MADDIE'S FUND ($6,195,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $8,481,502 in grants to COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY INC?
- THE DUFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MADDIE'S FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,195,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPANIONS AND ANIMALS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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