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PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,260,859 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($1,435,289). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.8M
Revenue FY2024
105
Funders on record
$6.3M
Grants received
$5.6M
Net assets
58/105 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.7M) Expenses 117 ($3.7M) Net assets 97 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 116 ($4.0M) Expenses 120 ($3.8M) Net assets 110 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 116 ($4.0M) Expenses 107 ($3.4M) Net assets 148 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 157 ($5.4M) Expenses 120 ($3.8M) Net assets 252 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 152 ($5.2M) Expenses 139 ($4.4M) Net assets 284 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 162 ($5.5M) Expenses 154 ($4.9M) Net assets 328 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 169 ($5.8M) Expenses 167 ($5.3M) Net assets 366 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (167)Net assets (366)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$246k
17
$43k
18
$159k
19
$567k
20
$1.6M
21
$766k
22
$652k
23
$471k
24
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $240k → $1.0M.

21 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)44% 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 PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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

PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY.

23%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 42% · 2019 20% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 12% · 2023 28%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 PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 22 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 105 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILADELPHIA 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY?
PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,260,859 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($1,435,289). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $6,260,859 in grants to PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,435,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 105funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing