Arizona · Nonprofit
PETSMART CHARITIES INC
PETSMART CHARITIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,964,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,574,418). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $94M
What Petsmart Charities Inc does
Mission
Petsmart charities envisions a world where communities unite in support of pets together with their families. Our mission is to make the world a better place by investing in community partners that advocate and care for the well-being of pets and all who love them. Petsmart charities grants more money to directly help pets in need than any other animal welfare group in north america.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Connecting people & pets by creating families through adoption programs. Whether it's through our in-store adoption centers, national adoption week, or our online search tool, we help pets in need find loving families to call their own. In 2025, we partnered with over 2,000 animal welfare groups across the united states to help 395,000 pets find homes through our in-store adoption program in over 1,500 petsmart stores. We also supported the transport of over 34,000 pets to areas where they had a better chance of being adopted.
$29,584,339 spentof which $21,066,850 as grants$71,378 earned by the program46% of program spendingSupporting pets & people by keeping families together: we support pets and their families through programs that work to make veterinary care more accessible, help battle food insecurity, and provide disaster response in times of need. In 2025, we partnered with human services agencies to donate over $9.8m in pet food, totaling over 56 million meals, to support those facing pet food insecurity. We invested $17.6m in grants to fund programs that support accessible veterinary medicine models that bring more affordable vet care into communities. We also granted over $694,000 to support disaster response during 15 major natural disasters to help an estimated 11,000 pets stay with their families during times of crisis.
$34,414,871 spentof which $29,286,010 as grants$33,622 earned by the program54% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,999,210.
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 2020 to 2021, from $62M to $79M (+27%).
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.
92% of PETSMART CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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
Neal Litvack
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $219k → $464k.
22 of 116 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 PETSMART CHARITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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
PETSMART CHARITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
86% 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 PETSMART CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 62% · 2023 17% — 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
29% of PETSMART CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
71% of PETSMART CHARITIES 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
PETSMART CHARITIES INC's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding PETSMART CHARITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- SUPPLIES - GENERAL $3k
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 PETSMART CHARITIES 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Petsmart Charities of Canada · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PETSMART CHARITIES 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 PETSMART CHARITIES INC?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,964,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,574,418). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PETSMART CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $4,964,569 in grants to PETSMART CHARITIES INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETSMART CHARITIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,574,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETSMART CHARITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 116 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