Washington · Nonprofit
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS (Washington) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,200,020 to it, the largest being DTCare ($13,165,845). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS does
Mission
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Companion Animal Services - PAWS provides refuge for more than 3,342 homeless, lost or orphaned cats and dogs every year, placing them in loving, permanent homes or reuniting them with their families. Every healthy, adoptable animal at PAWS is placed into a responsible, caring home. PAWS provides medical care to each animal, including spay/neuter surgery, vaccines, and microchipping as well as behavior training and enrichment. PAWS also provides training and education to strengthen the human/animal bond and works to end animal cruelty and overpopulation.
$2,906,890 spent$728,052 earned by the program46% of program spendingWildlife Services - Dedicated to helping wild animals return to the wild, PAWS Wildlife Center rehabilitates injured and orphaned wild animals from the state of Washington and beyond. PAWS cares for over 3,367 wild animals each year, with a focus on rehabilitating native species. PAWS partners with a variety of federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private landowners, for the release of wild animals back to the wild once rehabilitated. PAWS Wildlife Center also serves as a resource for people, offering educational training programs to future professionals in wildlife medicine and rehabilitation, assisting the community with humane solutions to wildlife conflicts, and responding to concerns about injured and orphaned wild animals.
$2,744,943 spent$411,127 earned by the program44% of program spendingEducation and Outreach PAWS raises awareness of animal issues and helps create positive change for animals through outreach and education, advocacy programs, and partnerships. More than 4,068 youth and adults are empowered each year by PAWS education programs and messages of compassion carried out through elementary school curriculum, youth workshops, public awareness campaigns, outreach at events, and print and online educational materials.
$643,824 spent$14,784 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,295,657.
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 2022 to 2023, from $49M to $62M (+28%).
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 10% · 2021 5% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS’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. 1 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
Heidi-Wills Yamada
CEO
Board chair
Joe Grube
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $209k → $5.3M.
20 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 31% · 2019 73% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 68% — 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
36% of Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS'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
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS: 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 Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS?
- Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS (Washington) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,200,020 to it, the largest being DTCare ($13,165,845). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $24,200,020 in grants to Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS?
- DTCare is the largest funder on record, with $13,165,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS 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.
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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 86 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