Washington · Nonprofit
PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE
PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,077 to it, the largest being MARILYN RAULAND KIDDER FOUNDATION ($43,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $309k
- Net assets
- $227k
What Pawsitive Alliance does
Mission
Pawsitive Alliance's mission is to help end the euthanasia of dogs and cats in Washington State by increasing adoptions, initiating and supporting spay and neuter programs, and providing resources and education to improve pet retention. Our Vision is a happy and healthy home for every dog and cat in Washington State.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Adoption Program helps animal adoption agencies in Washington State find homes for the homeless dogs and cats in their care by increasing adoption opportunities through events and our #WhyNotMePets campaign, which focuses on increasing the attention to long-term and harder to adopt cats and dogs who need an extra paw up to find their forever home. We coordinated 6 adoption events that included 19 partner rescues/shelters and over 80 dogs. Our #WhyNotMePets campaign highlighted 25 cats and dogs that had been without a forever home for more than a year or had special needs.
$4,683 spent1% of program spendingOur Spay and Neuter Program increases the number of high quality, low-cost cat and dog spay and neuter surgeries being performed in Washington State. We create new and expand existing programs, as well as raise funds to assist them, and we target areas with high rates of cat and dog overpopulation with few affordable surgery options. In 2025 we provided assistance to 1,845 cats and dogs throughout Washington state. All individuals and families that received assistance through this program were at or below the poverty threshold for their counties or residence
$227,868 spent56% of program spendingOur Pet Retention Program focuses on keeping pets with their caretaker and preventing pets from ending up in a shelter. To help lost pets return to their homes as quickly and safely as possible, we are focused on providing free or low-cost pet ID tags in communities throughout Washington State. Additionally, we honor that income should not be a barrier to keeping a pet. Thus, we help those most vulnerable in our community, the homeless and low-income, care for their pets as well as abandoned cats and dogs. Pawsitive Alliance is working with our partners to provide medical care, pet ID, and supplies for the pets of these community members to keep them safe and cared for. In 2025 we collected and distributed over 77,000 pounds of pet food and supplies, and provided Pet IDs to nearly 1300 pets.
$174,683 spentof which $100 as grants43% of program spendingOur Outreach program promotes awareness of and connects the community with Pawsitive Alliance's available services.
$3,241 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $410,475.
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 2024 to 2025, from $175k to $237k (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2023 6% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $52k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE’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
PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% 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 PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 55% · 2021 98% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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
13% of PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
58% of PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE?
- PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,077 to it, the largest being MARILYN RAULAND KIDDER FOUNDATION ($43,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $309,077 in grants to PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE?
- MARILYN RAULAND KIDDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE 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.
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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 25 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