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PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,155,947 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.0M
Funders on record
87
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
$41M
55/87 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Performing Animal Welfare Society does

Mission

Providing shelter and a permanent home for abused, abandoned and retired exotic animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Temporary and permanent shelter for mistreated, abandoned, and retired perfoming and exotic animals. This includes housing, feeding, providing veterinary care, and cleaning on a daily basis all accomplished by approximately 35 trained animal keepers on a 24 hour basis seven days per week.

    $3,455,721 spent
    80% of program spending
  2. Education of the public regarding abuses in the entertainment world, circuses, zoos, theme parks, fairs, etc. Carried out through newsletter, conferences, emails and speaking engagements.

    $647,312 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Consultation services to zoos, theme parks, film productions, etc. Open houses to educate the public, attending and speaking at conferences regarding animal abuses in entertainment.

    $215,770 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,318,803.

02The 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 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 257 ($7.1M) Expenses 103 ($3.6M) Net assets 121 ($20M)2019 Revenue 159 ($4.4M) Expenses 106 ($3.7M) Net assets 125 ($20M)2020 Revenue 273 ($7.5M) Expenses 103 ($3.6M) Net assets 149 ($24M)2021 Revenue 257 ($7.1M) Expenses 114 ($4.0M) Net assets 168 ($27M)2022 Revenue 197 ($5.4M) Expenses 123 ($4.3M) Net assets 154 ($25M)2023 Revenue 202 ($5.6M) Expenses 123 ($4.4M) Net assets 177 ($29M)2024 Revenue 352 ($9.7M) Expenses 142 ($5.0M) Net assets 221 ($36M)2025 Revenue 218 ($6.0M) Expenses 142 ($5.0M) Net assets 250 ($41M)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (142)Net assets (250)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $29M to $36M (+25%).

$16M
$20M
$21M
$24M
$28M
$25M
$29M
$36M
$41M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$771k
’17
$3.5M
’18
$658k
’19
$3.9M
’20
$3.1M
’21
$1.1M
’22
$1.2M
’23
$4.7M
’24
$981k
’25
7.0
months of
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.

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Listed77779891110
Joined·+0+0+0+3+1+1+2+0
No longer listed·00012001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $199k → $612k.

18 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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

PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

54% 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 PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY.

19%
largest funder
46%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 14% · 2019 21% · 2020 28% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.

“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

51% of PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 22 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve7.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 51 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: 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 PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY?
PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,155,947 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $5,155,947 in grants to PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY?
SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 87 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