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DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,141,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($595,534). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$7.7M
Funders on record
75
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$8.7M
47/75 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Delaware County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does

Mission

The providence animal center is dedicated to intervention and prevention policies to promote companion animal welfare and provide support services to their caregivers and the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Prevention of cruelty to animals- the providence animal center provides shelter and protection to animals while attempting to place animals in caring homes and promote responsible pet ownership through education and low cost veterinary services.

    $5,293,993 spentof which $275,000 as grants$3,374,795 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,293,993.

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 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 117 ($4.7M) Expenses 110 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2019 Revenue 160 ($6.4M) Expenses 122 ($4.3M) Net assets 127 ($15M)2020 Revenue 109 ($4.4M) Expenses 113 ($4.0M) Net assets 138 ($16M)2021 Revenue 198 ($7.9M) Expenses 132 ($4.6M) Net assets 172 ($20M)2022 Revenue 161 ($6.4M) Expenses 159 ($5.6M) Net assets 166 ($20M)2023 Revenue 210 ($8.4M) Expenses 167 ($5.8M) Net assets 61 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 192 ($7.7M) Expenses 178 ($6.2M) Net assets 74 ($8.7M)
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Revenue (192)Expenses (178)Net assets (74)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 2022 to 2023, from $20M to $7.3M (−63%).

$12M
$12M
$15M
$17M
$20M
$20M
$7.3M
$9.2M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$515k
’17
$845k
’18
$2.2M
’19
$403k
’20
$3.3M
’21
$893k
’22
$2.6M
’23
$1.5M
’24
2.0
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.

Chief executive

Jo-Ann Zoll

Chief executive office

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1112121215171717
Joined·+2+2+4+3+4+4+4
No longer listed·1240244
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $76k → $527k.

19 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $125k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Providence Animal Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS raised.

From the IRS filings of DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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

DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

65% 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 DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

19%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 38% · 2019 50% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% — 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

56% of DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

51% of DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 15 states.

WA
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 7%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

PA
NJ
FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Fido Fixers LLC · disregarded
  • The Providence Animal Center Foundation · exempt
  • Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,141,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($595,534). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $3,141,250 in grants to DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $595,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing