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FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,195 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($505,620). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$926k
Net assets
$1.9M
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Friends of the Animals does

Mission

Friends of the Animals (fotas) recruits and trains volunteers who improve the quality of life for jackson county animal shelter animals dogs, resulting in increased adoptions. Volunteers foster non-shelter dogs and cats as a registered oregon department of agriculture foster organization in their homes. Fotas spays/neuters before adoption, preventing unwanted litters. Fotas facilitates outreach and educational activities throughout jackson county, oregon to teach humane treatment of companion animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community spay and neutering program: Friends of the Animals (fotas) opened the new Friends of the Animals community spay & neuter clinic. Our services include: owned dog and cat spay/neuters, subsidized dog and cat spays/neuters for qualifying clients, rescue organization dog and cat spays/neuters, ancillary services, vaccines, and microchipping. We have increased the number of rescue organizations we can assist with spays and neuters. At the end of the year, we started our feral cat sterilization program and plan to expand this in 2026.

    $538,475 spentof which $28,821 as grants$459,338 earned by the program
    71% of program spending
  2. Foster program: fotas is a licensed animal rescue entity (are). Developed a volunteer-based foster program for cats and dogs. All animals are spayed and neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped before adoptions, preventing unwanted litters. We were able to increase our intake of dogs this year.

    $178,075 spent$28,332 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Vaccination and microchip clinic: fotas hosted a monthly low-cost vaccination and microchip clinic for our community to help keep their pets healthy and protected. We hope to expand these clinics to other locations next year. We have increased our number of appointments each month for both vaccinations and microchips.

    $40,547 spent$98,204 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $757,097.

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 ($234k) Expenses 100 ($248k) Net assets 100 ($639k)2018 Revenue 111 ($260k) Expenses 93 ($231k) Net assets 102 ($654k)2019 Revenue 143 ($336k) Expenses 103 ($255k) Net assets 122 ($780k)2020 Revenue 217 ($509k) Expenses 102 ($254k) Net assets 163 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 242 ($568k) Expenses 135 ($334k) Net assets 189 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 290 ($680k) Expenses 159 ($394k) Net assets 220 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 354 ($830k) Expenses 232 ($576k) Net assets 269 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 346 ($811k) Expenses 333 ($828k) Net assets 266 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 538 ($1.3M) Expenses 443 ($1.1M) Net assets 292 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (538)Expenses (443)Net assets (292)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+22%).

$639k
$654k
$780k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

41% of FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
$29k
’18
$81k
’19
$254k
’20
$233k
’21
$286k
’22
$254k
’23
−$17k
’24
$162k
’25
2.6
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.

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Listed889111111778
Joined·+0+2+3+2+3+2+3+5
No longer listed·01123634
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $35k → $182k.

8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS’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 OF THE ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

73% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS.

55%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 81% · 2019 75% · 2020 63% · 2021 58% · 2022 52% · 2023 48% — 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

42% of FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

73% of FRIENDS OF THE 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 $251k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 11 states.

MT
IL
NY
OR
NV
CT
CA
MO
DE
AZ
NC

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

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’19
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’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS?
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,195 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($505,620). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $926,195 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $505,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 28 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