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Friends For Life Animal Rescue

Friends For Life Animal Rescue (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $900 to it, the largest being MONSTER ENERGY CARES ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$73k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$900
Net assets
$47k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Friends For Life Animal Rescue does

Mission

Animal rescue

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Saving adoptable dogs from high-kill shelters and adopting them into loving homes. Our organization has saved 124 dogs in the first year of operation

    $26,856 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Vetting and reviving animals in health crisis. We've saved numerous animals with treatable illnesses that without our help would be put down due to the lack of shelter funding

    $31,847 spent
    54% of program spending
  3. Reabilitating dogs with behavioral issues and preparing them for adoption. We put time, effort and funds into training less adoptable dogs suffering from past traumas

    $534 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,237.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2022 Revenue 175 ($115k) Expenses 212 ($97k) Net assets 190 ($38k)2023 Revenue 109 ($72k) Expenses 148 ($68k) Net assets 211 ($43k)2024 Revenue 98 ($65k) Expenses 160 ($73k) Net assets 168 ($34k)2025 Revenue 111 ($73k) Expenses 131 ($60k) Net assets 234 ($47k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (111)Expenses (131)Net assets (234)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 $21k to $41k (+99%).

$21k
$41k
$44k
$37k
$49k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of Friends For Life Animal Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’21
$18k
’22
$4k
’23
−$9k
’24
$13k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Tamar Fabian

Chair, Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Friends For Life Animal Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Friends For Life Animal Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

Friends For Life Animal Rescue draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

NJ
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Friends For Life Animal Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Friends For Life Animal Rescue

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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends For Life Animal Rescue: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends For Life Animal Rescue?
Friends For Life Animal Rescue (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $900 to it, the largest being MONSTER ENERGY CARES ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends For Life Animal Rescue have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $900 in grants to Friends For Life Animal Rescue.
Who is the largest funder of Friends For Life Animal Rescue?
MONSTER ENERGY CARES is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends For Life Animal Rescue find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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