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FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC

FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC (Florida) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,979,246 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ($286,661). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.2M
Funders on record
50
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$12M
25/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc does

Mission

Promoting the humane treatment of all animals through compassionate care, adoption, education, population control and humane law enforcement. Activities include: animal control, low cost spay & neuter and wellness clinic, adoption, education, and care for animals when owners are in distress. Through a veterinary clinic and veterinary outreach programs, we endeavor to makeaffordable healthcare available to every animal in the Florida Keys.Through education and community outreach programs, we strive to promote awareness,respect and compassion for all the animals in our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. FKSPCA provides Animal Control services, cruelty investigations and adoption programs to the citizens of the Lower Florida Keys. The costs to fulfil the requirements of the County Contract in 2024 were $2,780,155 in program expenses. The Contract costs not covered by the fees received from the County resulted in a approximate shortfall of $1,337,948 that was covered with donations from the public and fundraising events. Donations and fundraising from the public also cover all the other general shelter costs in this program. Total costs for all other sections of this program, including Oscar's fund medical, total $308,850Donations from the public for Oscar's Fund cover extraordinary medical bills for shelter animals that would not otherwise be possible. In 2024, Oscar's Fund paid out $3,754 and received $3,567 in donations. During 2024, 480 animals were surrendered by their owners and 914 animals (including 159 wildlife animals) were picked up or brought to the shelter as lost or strays. Of the 1,394 animals picked up or brought in, 189 were dead on arrival or died. During 2024,a total of 622 animals were adopted out to new homes or transferred to specialty rescues and 381 were…

    $3,128,907 spent$1,455,300 earned by the program
    92% of program spending
  2. FKSPCA provides low-cost spay & neuter services for dogs and cats and rabbits and the occasional exotic pet. The services are provided free of charge for pets of community residents who are unable to pay and for all feral cats and all pit bull/pit bull mixes. During 2024, FKSPCA spayed and neutered the 676 dogs and cats (shelter and public animals. The Wellness Clinic provided wellness services to 433 public animals in 2024.

    $263,499 spent$247,672 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Critter Camp for Kids during the summer months began in the summer of 2019 to teach children how to treat and care for companion animals. Critter Camps are held several times in summer months and during the school break weeks.Youth Club is an afterschool instructor led volunteer program that brings children from the schools to the shelter each week to learn about caring for the animals. Related programs with the local schools and other non-profits during the entire year bring groups of children and also mentally handicapped adults to socialize with the animals, thereby providing knowledge to the children and enrichment for the animals.

    $26,000 spent$25,432 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  4. The Key West Dog Park was established by a small group of Key West citizens as a project of the FKSPCA. The FKSPCA continues to: (1) work as liaison between dog park advocates and local governments and (2) facilitate improvements to the Park. The Park provides a safe place for the dog owners of the Lower Keys to bring their dog for exercise off leash and a venue for animal related events. Each year the FKSPCA holds an annual event at the Key West Dog Park for the community and their pets. The event provides a fun venue for pet owners to get information about local vets, pet services of all kinds and the FKSPCA services. In 2024 there were no expenses for the dog park.

  5. Spearheaded by the FKSPCA, a Pet Food Pantry was established in 2009 in conjunction with other local non-profits to help local residents keep their pets during the economic downturn. Food is collected with help from Saint Mary's Star of the Sea Outreach (SOS) food pantry. Pet Food is distributed by SOS and FKSPCAAll promotion and collection work is done by volunteers.During 2024 an estimated $3,500 in pet food was collected and distributed through the Pet Food Pantry.

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,418,406.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2019 Revenue 113 ($2.4M) Expenses 152 ($2.1M) Net assets 104 ($10.0M)2020 Revenue 105 ($2.2M) Expenses 167 ($2.3M) Net assets 104 ($10.0M)2021 Revenue 118 ($2.5M) Expenses 175 ($2.4M) Net assets 106 ($10M)2022 Revenue 172 ($3.7M) Expenses 201 ($2.7M) Net assets 116 ($11M)2023 Revenue 138 ($3.0M) Expenses 223 ($3.0M) Net assets 115 ($11M)2024 Revenue 197 ($4.2M) Expenses 277 ($3.7M) Net assets 121 ($12M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (197)Expenses (277)Net assets (121)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 $10M to $11M (+9%).

$9.8M
$10M
$10M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$12M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$793k
’18
$367k
’19
−$9k
’20
$162k
’21
$971k
’22
−$44k
’23
$494k
’24
7.8
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed15171510101414
Joined·+3+1+0+0+7+0
No longer listed·135030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $365k → $139k.

13 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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

FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

55% 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 FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC.

14%
largest funder
32%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 41% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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

57% of FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 22 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $780k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

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

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve7.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

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

Organizations like FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 1%Fundraising 7%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Florida Keys Humane Society Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC?
FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC (Florida) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,979,246 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ($286,661). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $1,979,246 in grants to FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS is the largest funder on record, with $286,661 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 50 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