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PAAWS RI

PAAWS RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,551 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($260,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$170k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$338k
Net assets
$129k
4/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Paaws Ri does

Mission

To provide low cost/no cost sterilization, surgeries and medicines for free roaming cats, and pet cats owned by low-income families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide low cost/no cost sterilization, surgeries andmedicines for free roaming cats,and pet cats owned by low-income families. In 2025 29 cats were provided with such services.

    $209,460 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $209,460.

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 ($166k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 4 ($6k) Expenses 15 ($16k) Net assets 87 ($69k)2019 Revenue 31 ($52k) Expenses 39 ($44k) Net assets 96 ($76k)2020 Revenue 11 ($18k) Expenses 17 ($19k) Net assets 94 ($75k)2021 Revenue 10 ($17k) Expenses 4 ($5k) Net assets 109 ($87k)2022 Revenue 8 ($14k) Expenses 6 ($7k) Net assets 118 ($93k)2023 Revenue 0 ($-555) Expenses 5 ($5k) Net assets 110 ($87k)2024 Revenue 65 ($108k) Expenses 22 ($25k) Net assets 216 ($171k)2025 Revenue 103 ($170k) Expenses 186 ($209k) Net assets 163 ($129k)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (186)Net assets (163)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 2023 to 2024, from $87k to $171k (+95%).

$86k
$92k
$99k
$97k
$87k
$93k
$87k
$171k
$129k
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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

96% of PAAWS RI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
−$10k
’18
$7k
’19
−$2k
’20
$12k
’21
$7k
’22
−$6k
’23
$83k
’24
−$39k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $35k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
2
2
4
2
2
1
1

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PAAWS RI’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

PAAWS RI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 PAAWS RI.

77%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 52% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of PAAWS RI'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state.

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

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’19
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $337k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

PAAWS RI receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $338k to it.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like PAAWS RI

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05Profile & governance

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

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 PAAWS RI: 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 PAAWS RI?
PAAWS RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,551 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($260,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAAWS RI have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $337,551 in grants to PAAWS RI, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAAWS RI?
THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAAWS RI find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 5 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