Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,529,383 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION ($1,170,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Michigan Animal Rescue League does
Mission
The mission of the Michigan Animal Rescue League is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Michigan Animal Rescue League (marl) is a private, nonprofit animal shelter servicing oakland county and beyond since 1953. Marl provides the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, short- and long-term sanctuary, and adoption. Marl believes that every animal deserves the highest quality of life. Each and every animal that comes through our door is given unconditional love and regard in the form of physical care, socialization, and the day to day joys that an animal would receive in a home. Approximately 125-175 animals are in the care of marl on any given day; with over 860 dogs and cat adoptions annually.
$2,040,603 spent$139,335 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,040,603.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11M to $15M (+41%).
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.
94% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Aeron M Humes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $10k → $517k.
14 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 32% · 2019 32% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 2023 68% — 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
49% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
96% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $518k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE?
- MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,529,383 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION ($1,170,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $2,529,383 in grants to MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE?
- EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 69 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