Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 427 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,243,542 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,677,201). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC is better cushioned than half of the 95 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundationshared funders
- Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation Xxxxx3008portfolio match
- Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falkportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 8% · 2019 11% · 2020 8% · 2021 10% · 2022 18% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 51 funders to 168 funders, grant income rose $743k → $4.4M.
50 of 427 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 427 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
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
58% 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 INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% — 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
46% of INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 427 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation Xxxxx3008portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 127 organizations that share your funders
- Ploughshares Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 115 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 163 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of San Diegoshared fundersCA · backs 149 organizations that share your funders
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Bergen Countyshared fundersNJ · backs 111 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.9M on record.
- Agency for International Development$11.6M
- Department of State$5.1M
- Department of the Interior$1.2M
- Department of Commerce$884k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- International Fund for Animal Welfare Australia Pty Ltd · exempt
- International Fund for Animal Welfare Belgium AISBL · exempt
- International Fund for Animal Welfare IncFonds international pour la pro · exempt
- Fonds international pour la protection des animaux IFAW France · exempt
- Fonds international pour la protection des animaux IFAW · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC?
- INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 427 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,243,542 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,677,201). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 427 organizations giving $24,243,542 in grants to INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC, 234 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,677,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 427funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing