Maryland · Nonprofit
LAUREL CATS INC
LAUREL CATS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,405 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($111,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $370k
What Laurel Cats Inc does
Mission
Generally, to educate & mobilize concerned citizens of laurel, md and surrounding counties with respect to the public health and other benefits to the community by stabilizing, reducing, and eventually eliminating the local feral cat population through humane methods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
(1) laurel cats, inc. Is primarily a cat tvnr (trap/vaccinate/neuter/return) organization. (2) the organization traps feral cats in the laurel & beltsville, maryland areas, arranges for neutering & the provision of all necessary vaccinations. If the cat is not deemed compatible for human companionship, it is returned to the area in which it was trapped and routinely provided for. If the cat displays a capability for human companionship, it is placed into the foster program and listed for adoption. (3) the veterinary expenses includes the cost for cats returned to trapped areas and the cats placed into the foster program.
$208,942 spent$36,591 earned by the program100% of program spendingAll program service accomplishments listed below are performed by volunteers and incur no expenses nor generate revenue (1) stabilize, reduce, and eventually bring the free-roaming cat population to zero through tvnr and natural attrition (2) assist colony caretakers, property owners & managers in finding ways for cats to live harmoniously alongside homes & businesses (3) support caretakers by teaching & assisting them with sound management practices so all community cats are sterilized and have access to food, clean water, shelter, and veterinary services while maintaining the rights of the property owners & managers (4) promote low cost and free spay & neuter programs, responsible adoption, and other practices that will end the epidemic of abandoned, unsterilized cats that perpetuates the free-roaming cat cycle
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $208,942.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $328k to $397k (+21%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of LAUREL CATS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $37k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 LAUREL CATS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
LAUREL CATS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 LAUREL CATS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 49% · 2022 89% · 2023 84% — 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 LAUREL CATS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% 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
80% of LAUREL CATS INC'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LAUREL CATS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAUREL CATS INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAUREL CATS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAUREL CATS INC?
- LAUREL CATS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,405 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($111,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAUREL CATS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $150,405 in grants to LAUREL CATS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAUREL CATS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $111,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAUREL CATS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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