Virginia · Nonprofit
RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,674 to it, the largest being MARY I DOBROVIR CHARITABLE TRUST ($127,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $331k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Rappahannock Animal Welfare League does
Mission
Prevention of cruelty to animals(canines) through operation of no-kill shelter
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization found homes for approximately 45 dogs in 2024
$47,807 spentof which $3,195 as grants$271,521 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,807.
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 $1.4M to $1.3M (−12%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 43% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Patti Want
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $64k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE’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
RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 81% · 2019 93% · 2020 95% · 2021 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
20% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE?
- RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,674 to it, the largest being MARY I DOBROVIR CHARITABLE TRUST ($127,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $330,674 in grants to RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE?
- MARY I DOBROVIR CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $127,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAPPAHANNOCK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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