Louisiana · Nonprofit
LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,392,834 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($1,310,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Low Cost Animal Medical Center does
Mission
Our mission is to end the needless and horrible suffering and killing of dogs and cats in the metro new orleans area by providing high-quality and low-cost veterinary care and spay/neuter as well as other services to help low and middle-income pet owners better afford to care for and keep their pets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, Low Cost Animal Medical Center saw dogs and cats for veterinary care. Additionally, the center spay/neutered and performed other surgical procedures for for 1,836 dogs and cats.
$2,826,766 spent$2,888,457 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,826,766.
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.
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 $819k to $1.5M (+82%).
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: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sidney Copey Pulitzer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $207k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER’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
LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 81% · 2022 74% · 2023 97% — 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
80% of LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: 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 LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER?
- LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,392,834 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($1,310,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,392,834 in grants to LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 8 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