Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 364 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,462,183 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,175,487). 233 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $152M
- Funders on record
- 364
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $246M
What Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
The mission of the mspca is to protect animals, relieve their suffering, advance their health and welfare, prevent cruelty and work for a just and compassionate society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Angell animal medical centers in boston, waltham, the low-income veterinary clinics in boston, methuen and the cape and the low income and veterinary technician training program located at essex north shore agricultural & technical school in danvers, massachusetts had more than 117,000 visits in 2025. Of those, 31,300 received emergency care. Angell's more than 155 doctors, including 46 board-certified specialists, work as a team to deliver high quality general wellness, emergency and speciality care. In 2025, organization wide, mspca sterilized more than 12,100 dogs, cats and small animals. Angell's boston location has earned the accreditation of the american animal hospital association. Angell's boston and waltham locations are open for emergencies 24 hours of every day of the year. Pet owners who cannot afford routine or emergency care for their companion animals may apply to the carter j. Luke pet care assistance fund for financial aid.
$95,993,093 spentof which $2,142,964 as grants$97,536,261 earned by the program80% of program spendingEach year our four animal care and adoption centers take in thousands of homeless animals including cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, reptiles, horses, goats, sheep, cows, pigs, various farm birds, guinea pigs, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils, mice and rats. In 2025, a total of 11,573 animals found homes through adoption, transfers to other organizations, reuniting pets with their owners and surrender prevention programs. Our network of volunteers helps us provide individual attention to every animal in our care. 1,251 animals who needed extra time to heal went through our foster care program and 1,104 volunteers donated 91,311 hours to help with animal care, special events and office work. Our behavior program provided more than 4,000 pet owners with training, agility classes, and individual behavior consultations for their animals. 2,207 children and adults participated in humane education programs at each of our adoption centers, including summer camp, reading programs and junior volunteer programs. A total 11,181 animals in underserved communities were sterilized through our low cost spay/neuter program and a total of 15,634 animals received subsidized medical care treatments at our…
$22,385,611 spentof which $471,755 as grants$2,294,251 earned by the program19% of program spendingOur mspca law enforcement officers, fully commissioned by the commonwealth of massachusetts, meet a host of challenges every day in their quest to make this a better world for animals. During 2025, our law enforcement officers positively impacted 16,939 animals via mspca-angell law enforcement interventions, investigated 400 complaint of alleged animal abuse or neglect, placed surrenders andrescues linked to cases into protective care, and promoted animal protection law education amongst members of the public, local police departments, and other animal control officers throughout massachusetts. During 2025, our law enforecement team issued 402 educational advisories aimed at improving conditions for animals and keeping pets with families when appropriate, received 2,334 calls through dispatch that resulted in 714 new complaints investigated by our officers and animal cruelty charges filed in 27 cases and executed 23 search warrants, resulting in 839 animals seized or surrendered through law enforcement.
$1,634,916 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $120,013,620.
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 2024 to 2025, from $252M to $293M (+16%).
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.
28% of MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Neal Litvack
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 80 funders to 178 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $4.5M.
35 of 364 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 364 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
56% 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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% — 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
56% of MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 animals nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- Department of Defense$5k
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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Trusts (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 364 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,462,183 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,175,487). 233 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 364 organizations giving $33,462,183 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 233 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,175,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 364 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