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ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (New York) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,791,313 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,320,038). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
At the spca serving erie county, our mission is to create a more humane community through education; rescuing, protecting, and enhancing the lives of animals; and nurturing the bond between animals and people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The spca serving erie county is a private humane society funded by donations. The spca provides humane care for distressed animals, including housing, placement and disposal of same. The erie county spca allows adoption of animals and has multiple satellite adoption locations. The spca accepts stray dogs, cats, and other animals. Stray animals are kept in specially-designated areas away from adoption areas to prevent spread of potential diseases, bites, and to give owners a chance to locate them at the shelter. Over 9,233 domestic and wild animals were admitted and cared for this past year with each animal being examined by both our veterinary and behavior staff for good health and temperament before being placed in the adoption program.over 2,870 animals of all kinds (cats, dogs, farm animals, small pets, reptiles) were adopted into new homes.over 1,423 animals received foster care preparing them for subsequent adoption, with more than 708 individuals and families participating in our foster/foster-to-adopt program.special agents responded to over 1,898 calls for suspected animal cruelty and for domestic and wild animal rescue resulting in over 1,655 domestic animals being…
$7,185,920 spent$2,118,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,185,920.
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 2023 to 2024, from $28M to $32M (+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.
70% of ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Caitlin Daly
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 38 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $500k.
14 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 ERIE 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
ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 59% · 2019 58% · 2020 31% · 2021 67% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — 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
40% of ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
64% of ERIE 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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (New York) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,791,313 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,320,038). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $4,791,313 in grants to ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,320,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERIE 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 New York. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing