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HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC

HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,810 to it, the largest being THE PRENTICE FOUNDATION ($186,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$643k
Net assets
$819k
8/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Hill Country Animal League Spca Inc does

Mission

To prevent unwanted, neglected, and abused dogs and cats by providing affordable spay/neuter services, preventative care, and guidance on responsible pet ownership. By promoting the fostering and adoption of companion animals, we help deserving pets find loving, forever homes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Spay/neuter assistance programthe leagues primary service is to provide the public with low cost spay or neuter services. The league hopes that by making pet sterilization affordable, the problem of overpopulation of unwanted pets can be relieved. During 2006, the league established its own low cost spay/neuter clinic where the majority of animal surgeries take place. In 2024 the league performed 8,354 spay/neuter surgeries.preventative care servicesa total of 883 animals were treated.

    $1,119,872 spentof which $4,986 as grants$1,182,588 earned by the program
    44% of program spending
  2. Thrift storeevery purchase supports hill country animal league in providing low-cost spay/neuter surgeries and pet wellness services in the greater hill country area of texas.

    $1,445,949 spentof which $875,494 as grants$741,528 earned by the program
    56% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,565,821.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($986k) Net assets 100 ($441k)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.0M) Expenses 95 ($933k) Net assets 115 ($508k)2019 Revenue 92 ($977k) Expenses 103 ($1.0M) Net assets 106 ($467k)2020 Revenue 119 ($1.3M) Expenses 127 ($1.3M) Net assets 107 ($473k)2021 Revenue 149 ($1.6M) Expenses 128 ($1.3M) Net assets 180 ($792k)2022 Revenue 132 ($1.4M) Expenses 143 ($1.4M) Net assets 178 ($785k)2023 Revenue 144 ($1.5M) Expenses 155 ($1.5M) Net assets 183 ($808k)2024 Revenue 281 ($3.0M) Expenses 301 ($3.0M) Net assets 186 ($819k)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (301)Net assets (186)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 2019 to 2020, from $467k to $637k (+37%).

$455k
$509k
$467k
$637k
$794k
$787k
$808k
$866k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

36% of HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’17
$67k
’18
−$42k
’19
$7k
’20
$319k
’21
−$8k
’22
$573
’23
$17k
’24
2.2
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.

Chief executive

Rebecca Forrest

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed8777712108
Joined·+4+2+0+0+9+1+0
No longer listed·5200432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $107k → $5k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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

HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

30% 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 HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC.

29%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 61% · 2019 99% · 2020 65% · 2021 73% · 2022 67% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA 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

58% of HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

PA
CA
KY
AZ
TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC has grown faster than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

  • Hill Country Animal League Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC?
HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,810 to it, the largest being THE PRENTICE FOUNDATION ($186,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $642,810 in grants to HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC?
THE PRENTICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $186,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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