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PET PARTNERS

PET PARTNERS (Washington) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,398,466 to it, the largest being SELECT EQUITY GROUP FOUNDATION ($405,030). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.4M
Funders on record
85
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$15M
48/85 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Pet Partners does

Mission

Pet Partners is the national leader in demonstrating and promoting positive human-animal interactions to improve the physical, emotional and psychological lives of those we serve.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The human-animal bond is a relationship between people and animals that positively influences the health and well-being of both. Pet Partners is the nation's largest and most prestigious nonprofit registering handlers of multiple species as volunteer teams providing animal-assisted interactions. With the highest caliber of curriculum in the industry, Pet Partners trains volunteers and evaluates them with their pets for visiting animal programs in hospitals, nursing homes, veterans' centers, hospice, alzheimer's facilities, courtrooms, schools, and other settings. We recognize that animals can influence not just our happiness, but also our health. Through our 8,527 teams we improve the health and well-being with more than 3 million visits a year.

    $3,008,645 spentof which $86,000 as grants$493,001 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,008,645.

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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($8.5M)2018 Revenue 770 ($17M) Expenses 114 ($3.5M) Net assets 253 ($21M)2019 Revenue 167 ($3.6M) Expenses 177 ($5.4M) Net assets 243 ($21M)2020 Revenue 191 ($4.1M) Expenses 157 ($4.8M) Net assets 245 ($21M)2021 Revenue 167 ($3.6M) Expenses 152 ($4.6M) Net assets 243 ($21M)2022 Revenue 128 ($2.8M) Expenses 165 ($5.0M) Net assets 186 ($16M)2023 Revenue 233 ($5.0M) Expenses 142 ($4.3M) Net assets 186 ($16M)2024 Revenue 112 ($2.4M) Expenses 138 ($4.2M) Net assets 179 ($15M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (138)Net assets (179)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 2017 to 2018, from $8.9M to $22M (+147%).

$8.9M
$22M
$21M
$21M
$21M
$16M
$16M
$16M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

57% of PET PARTNERS’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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$867k
’17
$13M
’18
−$1.7M
’19
−$623k
’20
−$991k
’21
−$2.2M
’22
$738k
’23
−$1.8M
’24
3.6
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.

Chief executive

Catherine Ann Peters

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2829312929323327
Joined·+9+3+6+5+8+5+4
No longer listed·81855410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $168k → $378k.

13 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PARTNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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

PET PARTNERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

39% 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 PARTNERS.

17%
largest funder
35%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 33% · 2019 59% · 2020 12% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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

44% of PET PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

PET PARTNERS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 26 states in all.

AK
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

PET PARTNERS's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−72% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding PET PARTNERS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500 on record.

State$500
Top programs
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$500

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like PET PARTNERS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 18%Fundraising 11%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 50 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
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Ppb LLC · disregarded
  • Association of Aai Professionals · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PET PARTNERS: 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 PET PARTNERS?
PET PARTNERS (Washington) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,398,466 to it, the largest being SELECT EQUITY GROUP FOUNDATION ($405,030). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PET PARTNERS have?
IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $2,398,466 in grants to PET PARTNERS, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PET PARTNERS?
SELECT EQUITY GROUP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PET PARTNERS 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.

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 85 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