New York · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS
INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,282,757 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($998,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $820k
What Institute for Animal Happiness does
Mission
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network committed to collective liberation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
- we continue to provide regular education and support via our online platforms (website, social media and as guests at various online educational events produced by organizations we collaborate with) and also via our in-person events, most notably at happy cart free vegan food distributions (weekly) and tabling at local community opportunities (such as the kingston ny farmer's market).- we serve free food via the happy vegan cart (along with the educational offerings) and that program is now in its amazing fifth year! We have averaged serving 1000 meals per season (the program is going to be year-round in 2025, and we expect to triple the numbers of people served at our new location.) (www.happyvegancart.org)- we continued our tradition of hosting the happy harvest dinner. This is the only completely plant-based/vegan free holiday meal distribution in the hudson valley. In 2024 we served over 150 people, producing the opportunity at people's place community caf.- we doubled our population of rescued birds, taking in a highly disabled pekin duck (jane) and 10 other hens from a deplorable local neglect case, nursing them back to health and safely integrating them into our resident…
$119,286 spent$1,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $119,286.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $125k to $798k (+539%).
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.
99% of INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Rebecca Moore
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $770k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS’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
INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 98% · 2022 81% · 2023 94% — 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
89% of INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS'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 $143k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS: 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 INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS?
- INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,282,757 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($998,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,282,757 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $998,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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