Nevada · Nonprofit
COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL
COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,446 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,150). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Compassionworks International does
Mission
CompassionWorks International advocates and facilitates advocacy for animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CWI assists animal advocates and community-based advocacy groups across the U.S. and beyond take action against cruelty inflicted upon animals by circuses. We provide protest posters, leaflets, advice, and support across a variety of actions including demonstrations, petitions, legal action & capturing evidence of cruelty. We also create our own direct actions in various forms including petitions, letter writing & social media campaigns, & billboards.
$24,376 spent61% of program spendingCWI actively investigates instances of animal cruelty. We look for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and report cruelty to the USDA when found. We use the same video footage to produce educational videos that we distribute through social media channels.
$8,229 spent21% of program spendingCWI provides support for direct animal care to animals we have assisted with our advocacy, on a limited basis and when funding has specifically been secured, to support organizations providing that care.
$0 spentof which $207 as grants0% of program spending4. CWI's Wheeks of Hope program provides direct care to guinea pig in needs, engages in campaigns seeking to ban the sale of guinea pigs in pet stores, and provides relief to local rescues in need of funds to maintain guinea pigs and manage vet bills.
$7,492 spentof which $2,200 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,097.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $149k to $171k (+15%).
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.
94% of COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Carrie LeBlanc
Executive Director and President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $4k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL’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
COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 91% · 2022 44% · 2023 32% — 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
100% of COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
53% of COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL: 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 COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL?
- COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,446 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,150). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $51,446 in grants to COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $21,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSIONWORKS INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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