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FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC

FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,453 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($35,680). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.5M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$70k
Net assets
$3.7M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What First State Animal Center and Spca Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals, rescue the trapped or injured, provide emergency medical treatment and temporary housing to the homeless animals, and to reduce pet overpopulation through various spay/neuter and education programs. Fsac is committed to place unwanted pets into happy, healthy homes, and to educate the public about responsible pet guardianship.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Animal care, treatment, and shelter, including wellness clinics and spay and neutering programs to prevent pet overpopulation and cruelty and suffering to animals

    $2,737,179 spent$1,752,028 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,737,179.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($936k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 45 ($579k) Expenses 103 ($961k) Net assets 87 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 61 ($779k) Expenses 91 ($855k) Net assets 85 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 42 ($539k) Expenses 79 ($735k) Net assets 77 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 97 ($1.2M) Expenses 82 ($768k) Net assets 96 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 138 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.0M) Net assets 123 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 136 ($1.7M) Expenses 185 ($1.7M) Net assets 120 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 193 ($2.5M) Expenses 250 ($2.3M) Net assets 124 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (250)Net assets (124)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 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $4.1M (+21%).

$3.6M
$3.1M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$3.4M
$4.1M
$4.1M
$4.3M
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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: 2022 63% · 2023 29% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$336k
’17
−$382k
’18
−$76k
’19
−$196k
’20
$471k
’21
$745k
’22
$784
’23
$113k
’24
5.6
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

John Parana

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1917161313131110
Joined·+4+1+12+3+0+1+0
No longer listed·62153031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $12k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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

FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC.

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 90% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Delaware funders.

NY
DE
NC

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

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’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

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

Government funding FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.

State$2.4M
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Top programs
  • GRANTS IN AID$2.2M
  • OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$107k
  • VETERINARIAN SERVICES$38k
  • TOWNS-COURT FINE PASSTHRU$1k
  • ANIMAL SERVICES$925
  • STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$309

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC?
FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,453 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($35,680). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $70,453 in grants to FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST STATE ANIMAL CENTER AND SPCA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 8 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