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PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 426 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,475,862 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,700,000). 273 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$110M
Revenue FY2025
426
Funders on record
$58M
Grants received
$68M
Net assets
273/426 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16 animals nonprofits its size.

Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16 animals nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($45M) Expenses 100 ($64M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 119 ($53M) Expenses 83 ($53M) Net assets 99 ($14M)2019 Revenue 108 ($48M) Expenses 83 ($53M) Net assets 61 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 136 ($61M) Expenses 85 ($55M) Net assets 110 ($15M)2021 Revenue 136 ($61M) Expenses 76 ($49M) Net assets 209 ($29M)2022 Revenue 153 ($68M) Expenses 107 ($69M) Net assets 183 ($25M)2023 Revenue 157 ($70M) Expenses 106 ($68M) Net assets 211 ($29M)2024 Revenue 173 ($77M) Expenses 111 ($71M) Net assets 270 ($37M)2025 Revenue 247 ($110M) Expenses 124 ($80M) Net assets 494 ($68M)
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Revenue (247)Expenses (124)Net assets (494)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16 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.

$20M
17
$79k
18
$5.3M
19
$5.9M
20
$12M
21
$600k
22
$2.1M
23
$5.9M
24
$30M
25
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 114 funders to 162 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $9.0M.

59 of 426 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation to Support Animal Protection). These are real filings, and they are not money PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 426 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

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

46% 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 PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC.

15%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 28% · 2019 32% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 32% · 2023 16%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

45% of PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 40 states in all.

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 426 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 2%Fundraising 14%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 45 states

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Part of a family of 12 related entities

  • Foundation to Support Animal Protec · exempt
  • Peta Asia · exempt
  • Peta Deutschland Ev · exempt
  • Peta Foundation UK · exempt
  • Peta France · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: 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 PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC?
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 426 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,475,862 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,700,000). 273 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC have?
IRS filings report 426 organizations giving $58,475,862 in grants to PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC, 273 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC?
SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC 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.

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 426funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing