Virginia · Nonprofit
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 434 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,334,400 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,700,000). 279 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $110M
- Funders on record
- 434
- Grants received
- $60M
- Net assets
- $68M
What People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc does
Mission
Protection of animal rights
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research, investigations, and rescuespeta's determined team of fieldworkers and cruelty investigators are stopping abuse and transforming animal lives on a massive scale.our emergency response team is on call 24/7, and they are the only group that offers cruelty casework help all over the world, quickly responding to more than 12,500 calls and e-mails regarding cruelty to animals in 2025 alone. The team's work is touching lives across the globe, from prompting the seizure of more than 300 rats from confined, filthy cages in canton, ohio, to securing transport and shelter for a cat who was being abused by a group of children in afghanistan.peta's mobile clinics division spayed or neutered more than 11,200 cats and dogs, including nearly 750 feral cats and 930 pitbulls at a reduced cost or free of charge. This vital program has sterilized more than 249,000 companion animals since its inception, keeping generations of animals from being abandoned to the streets or already overburdened shelters.we built and delivered nearly 100 sturdy doghouses and bagged almost 1,200 bales of straw, providing a bit of comfort to neglected "backyard" dogs who are forced to live outdoors. Peta donors…
$27,175,497 spentof which $2,669,093 as grants$786,198 earned by the program41% of program spendingPublic outreach and informationpeta conducts informational campaigns, engages in news gathering and reporting, and publishes materials for children, high school and college students, and educators as well as factsheets, booklets, flyers, posters, and a magazine, peta global, for the public and supporters. Peta's campaigns which reach millions of people and receive extensive international media coverage involve renowned celebrities, interactive social networking, website features, blog posts, and public service announcements (psas), which are typically placed for free in high-exposure outlets.
$23,681,886 spentof which $664,116 as grants35% of program spendingInternational grassroots campaigns:peta is achieving historic progress toward ending animal testing driving systemic reforms, major policy changes, and industry wide shifts toward state-of-the-art, humane science.in a major turning point, the national institutes of health announced plans to redirect funding away from outdated experiments on animals and toward non-animal research methods just as peta recommends in our landmark research modernization now roadmap. Among the changes, nih canceled two longstanding grants to harvard experimenter margaret livingstone, who tore baby monkeys from their mothers and sewed their eyelids shut. More than 700,000 messages and calls from peta supporters helped make this victory possible.after years of persuasion, evidence sharing, and meetings with peta scientists, the food and drug administration (fda) has invited the entire pharmaceutical industry to bring forward their animal replacement approaches for drug testing, starting with monoclonal antibodies. Testing antibody drugs uses dogs, monkeys, or other animals, and a single test can kill more than 100 monkeys.peta's intense advocacy closed the university of massachusetts amherst laboratory of…
$15,545,802 spentof which $4,159,619 as grants$172,986 earned by the program23% of program spendingCruelty-free merchandise programpeta encourages and facilitates cruelty-free living by providing compassionate people around the world with consumer products such as cosmetics and household cleaners that aren't tested on animals, animal-care products, and animal rights t-shirts informational videos and books, animal-rescue equipment, and campaign materials. These items are available online through the peta shopping guide and the peta shop. Some notable brands include axe and lynx (unilever) and roc skincare.
$514,960 spentof which $5,477 as grants$10,936 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,918,145.
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 $53M to $82M (+56%).
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: 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 (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Michael Rodman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 114 funders to 162 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $9.0M.
61 of 434 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 434 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 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
44% 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.
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.
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 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 animals nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
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.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
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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 434 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,334,400 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,700,000). 279 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 434 organizations giving $60,334,400 in grants to PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC, 279 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 434 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