Virginia · Nonprofit
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,105,939 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,080,724). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Richmond Animal League Inc does
Mission
To provide homeless animals with temporary housing, medical treatment, sterilization and quality care until they are adopted into permanent, loving homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ral provided temporary, safe, clean housing, food, medical care, exercise and socialization to over 1,500 homeless pets. The majority of pets were transferred to ral from over 30 partnering municipal animal control facilities throughout central virginia, freeing them up to help more homeless pets. Once sterilized and medically cleared for adoption into new homes, ral provided a thoughtful quality adoption process that emphasized counseling on pet selection, vet checks and follow-up calls to ensure that the pets and owners were adjusting. Ral continues to provide training and assistance as needed to help keep animals in their new homes.
$2,002,606 spent$212,663 earned by the program57% of program spendingRal's loving spay and neuter clinic provided spay and neuter surgeries to over 6,300 pets. These services were provided to municipal shelter partners, other animal rescue organizations, trap neuter and return feral/community cat partners, and public pet owners, in addition to the over 1,500 pets transferred to ral and readied for adoption.
$1,500,303 spent$1,352,507 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,502,909.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.6M to $5.8M (+60%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Larry Eason
Executive director
Board chair
Tj Acuto
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $221k → $872k.
16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 20% · 2019 82% · 2020 27% · 2021 45% · 2022 54% · 2023 41% — 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
42% of RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
56% of RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC?
- RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,105,939 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,080,724). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $4,105,939 in grants to RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,080,724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC 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 61 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