South Carolina · Nonprofit
PAWMETTO LIFELINE
PAWMETTO LIFELINE (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,722 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($381,590). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Pawmetto Lifeline does
Mission
To impact the quality of life for both people and companion pets through education, medical services, adoptions, collaboration and outreach in an effort to improve community outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To alleviate animal suffering; set safe and humane standards for companion pets and shelters; educate ad increase awareness of the necessity for spaying and neutering; and to find quality homes for animals in need.
$1,105,726 spent$1,147,984 earned by the program17% of program spendingThe purpose of mobile vaccine clinic is to provide basic pet care services to individuals who may not be able to pay full service veterinarian clinic prices. Though the clinic is intended to provide care for pets and belonging to underserved populations, it is not restricted to such and is open to any pets in need of care. The mobile vaccine clinic gives pet owners the opportunity to keep their pets vaccinated in accordance with the law, and for the animals' health, and allows them the opportunity to purchase much needed parasite control products to alleviate and prevent pain and suffering of their pets and diminish the possibility of the pet being reliquished to a municpal shelter and/or becoming homeless. All proceeds are used to provide care to homeless pets or families that cannot afford to pay for medical services for their pets.
$1,535,332 spent$2,403,503 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe purpose of the medical clinic is to provide spay and neuter services and vaccinations. These services are marketed to the general public but the organization also focuses aggressively on communities with high rates of animal reproduction and pets belonging to low-income populations. Revenue from the medical clinic also helps provide services to less fortunate animals/homeless pets.
$3,084,602 spent$1,842,084 earned by the program48% of program spendingVarious services for pets.
$650,185 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,375,845.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.6M to $9.1M (+21%).
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.
20% of PAWMETTO LIFELINE’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. 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
Denise Wilkinson
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $141k → $242k.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 PAWMETTO LIFELINE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
PAWMETTO LIFELINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 PAWMETTO LIFELINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 56% · 2019 27% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 17% — 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
64% of PAWMETTO LIFELINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
PAWMETTO LIFELINE draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $756k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PAWMETTO LIFELINE's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PAWMETTO LIFELINE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWMETTO LIFELINE: 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 PAWMETTO LIFELINE?
- PAWMETTO LIFELINE (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,722 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($381,590). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWMETTO LIFELINE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,807,722 in grants to PAWMETTO LIFELINE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWMETTO LIFELINE?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $381,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWMETTO LIFELINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 37 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