Virginia · Nonprofit
RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Virginia) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,728,611 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,914,123). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
The richmond spca is cultivating a community committed to saving, protecting and enriching animal lives with a mission to provide education and resources to achieve and sustain a no-kill community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our susan m. Markel veterinary hospital is a full-service facility providing quality care at low cost for pets of income-qualified families in the greater richmond region and those adopted from our humane center. Our hospital ensures families of all means have access to treatment options they can afford for their animal companions. As an expansion of the richmond spca's pet-retention services, our susan m. Markel veterinary hospital helps pets stay with their families while enjoying a greater quality of life.
$2,596,842 spent$1,672,714 earned by the program25% of program spendingOur staff and volunteers delivered loving care and enrichment to 4,383 homeless animals - both in our humane center and in foster homes. The majority of pets we brought into our care were ones we transferred from under resourced government shelters. In total, we partnered with 78 shelters last year (63 of which were in virginia) to bring vulnerable pets into our care. The remaining pets the richmond spca took into our care were ones surrendered to us by their former owners or who were found stray by good samaritans or who were abandoned. More than 80% of the homeless pets in our humane center required crucial veterinary treatment, which our professional medical staff delivered, for a variety of illnesses and injuries prior to adoption to lasting homes in our community.
$5,445,840 spent$656,160 earned by the program53% of program spendingHumane education at the richmond spca includes programs for both children and adults that instill compassion, kindness, and empathy for both humans and animals, develop character and promote responsible care for all creatures. Programs delivered in fiscal year 2025 included summer camp, public training classes and seminars, a day training service and virtual programming.
$1,547,309 spent$584,436 earned by the program15% of program spendingThe richmond spca smoky's spay & neuter clinic provides sterilization services to pets in the care of other shelters and rescue organizations as well as to unowned free-roaming cats brought to us by caregivers performing trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (tnvr).
$738,058 spent$429,404 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,328,049.
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 $45M to $57M (+29%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Tamsen Heckel Kingry
Chief executive officer/di
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $803k → $1.5M.
19 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
45% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 71% · 2019 49% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 37% · 2023 22% — 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
55% of RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Richmond Spca Land Co LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Virginia) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,728,611 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,914,123). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $7,728,611 in grants to RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,914,123 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 125 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