Delaware · Nonprofit
PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $891,642 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($224,814). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $675k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $892k
- Net assets
- $806k
What Pet-Assisted Visitation Volunteer Services Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives of people in our community by lovingly providing individualized, therapeutic visits with our specially trained volunteers and their certified gentle, affectionate pets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Paws for reading - paws pet therapy teams trained in this literacy support program work with struggling and reluctant readers, ell students, and anyone in need of reading support, to provide a non-judgmental listener who inspires a love of reading. Working at 91 schools and libraries in our four-state region, paws for reading teams work with hundreds of readers each year aiding in the development of essential literacy, communication, social and life skills
$273,999 spent$74,829 earned by the program50% of program spendingPaws for elders - paws pet therapy teams provide programs and engaging visits at approximately 39 partnering elder facilities in our four-state region, including assisted living, skilled care, memory care, and hospice facilities. Paws' specialized eldercare training focusing on the nature and quality of eldercare visits helps our pet therapy teams understand and support elders' special needs and concerns. This enables our visits to be most beneficial and positively impact our elders' quality of life physically, psychologically, and emotionally. A paws team shared "the residents we visit may have faded memories, but paws teams help bring back the most wonderful, comforting, peaceful, happy moments we possibly can."
$136,999 spent$37,415 earned by the program25% of program spendingPaws for special needs - paws for people partners with over 31 facilities providing care for people of all ages with physical disabilities, behavioral and mental health challenges and substance abuse issues. Working directly with professional staff, paws pet therapy teams tailor their visits to support the specific goals of people in treatment including inspiring movement, communication, socialization and more. This allows challenging treatment settings often to become a place of light-hearted learning and fun by providing a unique means of motivation. The presence of a loving supportive therapy pet helps in ways that humans cannot "the paws dog made me want to do more, and now I know that I can do it!"
$82,200 spent$22,449 earned by the program15% of program spendingOthers
$54,800 spent$14,965 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $547,997. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
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 2021 to 2022, from $763k to $1.1M (+39%).
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: 2020 14% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Clarice Ritchie
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $40k → $169k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC’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
PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
77% 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 PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 62% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 24% — 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
40% of PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
75% of PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $226k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k 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
PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC?
- PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $891,642 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($224,814). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $891,642 in grants to PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $224,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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