Virginia · Nonprofit
PAWS FOR SENIORS
PAWS FOR SENIORS (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,867 to it, the largest being SPIRIT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ($41,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Paws for Seniors does
Mission
Foster Based Animal Rescue and Adoption Organizaton of homeless Cats and Dogs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Rescue of homeless cats and dogs, addressing their medical and psycological needs and finding them new homes to qualified adopters through our adoption process. Our adoption process consist of processing the adopters submitted online application for an animal or prequalifying which may consist of vet checks, landlord checks, home checks, and personal interviews. Once approved the animal is adopted and an adoption contract is signed. Home checks may be done virtually. We educate clients and the public on cat and dog care and handling as well as the benefit of adopting a senior rescued pet. Our full life cycle process consists of an intake process where we address the pets medical needs, facilitate required health care, behavioral, and grooming needs. We then change their status in our database system to available where they are seen by the public via internet. They are also seen by the public via adoption events, personal visits to the adopters home or the adopters may visit foster home where the animal is staying. We commit to these animals for life. If the animal does not get adopted they stay in our as a permanent foster pet. In 2024 our medical expenses alone was over 58…
$103,094 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,094.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $104k to $82k (−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.
69% of PAWS FOR SENIORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
James Scamordella
President/Treasurer/Exec Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $30k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PAWS FOR SENIORS’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
PAWS FOR SENIORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 PAWS FOR SENIORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 71% · 2020 54% · 2021 39% · 2022 63% · 2023 42% — 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
50% of PAWS FOR SENIORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
63% of PAWS FOR SENIORS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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.
Against its field
PAWS FOR SENIORS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PAWS FOR SENIORS
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 Virginia
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWS FOR SENIORS: 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 PAWS FOR SENIORS?
- PAWS FOR SENIORS (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,867 to it, the largest being SPIRIT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ($41,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWS FOR SENIORS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $141,867 in grants to PAWS FOR SENIORS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS FOR SENIORS?
- SPIRIT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS FOR SENIORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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