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LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC

LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,425 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($365,572). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$587k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$24k
16/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Little Wanderers NYC Inc does

Mission

Connecting Rescues to Foster Families and covering Veterinary care expenses

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Donations and Adoption Fees

    $524,840 spent$587,316 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $524,840.

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 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 492 ($303k) Expenses 565 ($300k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 502 ($309k) Expenses 592 ($314k) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 972 ($598k) Expenses 1121 ($595k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 1052 ($647k) Expenses 1185 ($629k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 771 ($475k) Expenses 865 ($459k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 884 ($544k) Expenses 1063 ($564k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 835 ($514k) Expenses 968 ($514k) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 954 ($587k) Expenses 1005 ($533k) Net assets 277 ($24k)
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Revenue (954)Expenses (1005)Net assets (277)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 2017 to 2018, from $8k to $0 (−100%).

$8k
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$27k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$3k
’18
−$5k
’19
$3k
’20
$18k
’21
$15k
’22
−$20k
’23
$0
’24
$54k
’25
0.6
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $44k → $218k.

7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 LITTLE WANDERERS NYC 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

LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

97% 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 LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC.

33%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 48% · 2020 46% · 2021 25% · 2022 38% · 2023 43% — 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

67% of LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

74% of LITTLE WANDERERS NYC 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 $288k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from New York funders.

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $810k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC?
LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,425 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($365,572). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,097,425 in grants to LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $365,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITTLE WANDERERS NYC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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