New York · Nonprofit
GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC
GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,414 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Gracious Friends Animal Sanctuary Inc does
Mission
To care for animals who have been abused or abandoned; providing adoption services for appropriate animals and lifelong sanctuary for animals unable to live in a traditional setting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Routine Care; provided day to day care to animals, to include but not limited to, food, supplements and enrichment. Maintaining day to day care allows the animals to be nourished and able to work towards the goal of being adopted when appropriate.
$16,037 spent34% of program spendingFacility Operations and Maintenance; ensured the facility was safe and appropriate for the animals to live to include heating, plumbing, and any necessary structural repairs. This allowed for animals to live safely, whether working towards the goal of adoption or finding sanctuary at the facility.
$8,085 spent17% of program spendingMedical care; ensured animals received routine and non routine medical care to include but not limited to, preventive medicine, treatment for sick and injured pets, and ensure all cats and dogs in the program were spayed and neutered. Maintaining medical care ensures the overall health of all program animals, prevents spread of illness, alleviates potential suffering, and allows our adoptive animals to remain ready for adoption animals to remain ready for adoption at all times.
$22,930 spent49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,052.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $197 → $380.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC’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
GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
100% 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 GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New York
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC?
- GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,414 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,414 in grants to GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC?
- BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACIOUS FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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