Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,081 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $481k
What Four Paws International Inc does
Mission
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. Four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Four paws' education and advocacy work on behalf of animals - four paws is working to educate and mobilize people to take actions that provide support and protection, and positive social and legislative changes for animals. Four paws is doing this in several ways: protecting wild animals from suffering worldwide: four paws works to end the farming, international trade and exploitation of big cats through public and government engagement in south africa, europe, and the united states. In 2025, four paws and coalition partners celebrated the passage of legislation in washington state to end the use of certain wild animals in circuses and traveling shows, and continued to support similar legislation in new york and illinois. Four paws operates sanctuaries for rescued big cats and bears across multiple continents. Our lionsrock big cat sanctuary in south africa provides permanent, species-appropriate homes for over 90 rescued big cats from circuses, private keeping, canned hunting facilities, and war-torn zoos. Our felida big cat sanctuary in the netherlands specializes in intensive care for traumatized big cats, while tierart wild animal sanctuary in germany cares for rescued tigers…
$1,492,893 spentof which $188,790 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,492,893.
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 2022 to 2023, from $712k to $490k (−31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $9k → $201k.
10 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% 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 FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 62% · 2019 79% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 47% · 2023 25% — 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
35% of FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,081 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $1,406,081 in grants to FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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