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Motley Zoo Animal Rescue

Motley Zoo Animal Rescue (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,617 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($669,033). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$1.6M
12/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Motley Zoo Animal Rescue does

Mission

To elevate the status of animals in society through rescue, rehabilitation, and education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Rescuing and rehoming homeless animals- as well as focusing on intake diversion- to make them adoptable through the application of extensive veterinary care, training, and socialization.

    $487,717 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. Operation of a dog boarding facility and service.

    $209,022 spent$411,241 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $696,739.

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 ($582k) Expenses 100 ($582k) Net assets 100 ($224k)2018 Revenue 91 ($532k) Expenses 91 ($529k) Net assets 101 ($227k)2019 Revenue 105 ($610k) Expenses 81 ($471k) Net assets 163 ($365k)2020 Revenue 145 ($846k) Expenses 87 ($506k) Net assets 315 ($705k)2021 Revenue 153 ($893k) Expenses 113 ($659k) Net assets 420 ($940k)2022 Revenue 197 ($1.1M) Expenses 165 ($959k) Net assets 505 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 178 ($1.0M) Expenses 167 ($975k) Net assets 532 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 173 ($1.0M) Expenses 172 ($1.0M) Net assets 549 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 191 ($1.1M) Expenses 140 ($815k) Net assets 695 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (140)Net assets (695)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 2019 to 2020, from $365k to $854k (+134%).

$224k
$227k
$365k
$854k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.6M
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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

62% of Motley Zoo Animal Rescue’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$435
’17
$3k
’18
$138k
’19
$340k
’20
$234k
’21
$189k
’22
$61k
’23
$4k
’24
$294k
’25
7.6
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.

Chief executive

Jme Thomas

President and Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed334555558
Joined·+0+1+1+0+0+1+1+3
No longer listed·00000110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $187k.

8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 Motley Zoo Animal Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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

Motley Zoo Animal Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 Motley Zoo Animal Rescue.

54%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 62% · 2022 40% · 2023 66% — 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

22% of Motley Zoo Animal Rescue's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

62% of Motley Zoo Animal Rescue'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 $472k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA
ID
IL
WI
PA
NJ
CA
DE
FL

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

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $770k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Motley Zoo Animal Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Motley Zoo Animal Rescue

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Motley Zoo Animal Rescue?
Motley Zoo Animal Rescue (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,617 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($669,033). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Motley Zoo Animal Rescue have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,241,617 in grants to Motley Zoo Animal Rescue, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Motley Zoo Animal Rescue?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $669,033 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Motley Zoo Animal Rescue find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 26 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