Rhode Island · Nonprofit
ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC
ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,827,701 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($770,792). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Robert Potter League for Animals Inc does
Mission
As the heart of a compassionate community, we enrich lives and promote the humane treatment of animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sheltering and adoptions: the league invests in behavior, foster care, and veterinary programs to ensure that animals are rehabilitated and adopted. We found new homes for 1,493 animals, and 183 lost animals were reunited with their families. The potter league provided free veterinary wellness clinics to residents of public housing and others who have difficulty accessing veterinary care, including physical exams, vaccines, and microchips, to 1,058 animals whose families would not otherwise be able to afford care. Our pet food bank and veterinary assistance programs support animals who belong to families that are economically challenged. We supplied 48,399 pounds of pet food to food pantries and individuals and subsidized over $23,630 in veterinary care for newport county residents who could not afford care for their pets. The league's petsafe program provided emergency housing and care for 85 pets of victims of domestic violence, natural disasters, fires, and other crises for a total of 5,525 days. Collaboration is critical to our mission. The potter league partners with the martin luther king center jr community center, the women's resource center, lucy's hearth, newport public…
$1,941,887 spent$496,343 earned by the program45% of program spendingEducation, behavior & training, and community awareness- behavior and training: as the animal resource center for newport county (ri) and beyond, the potter league offers various programs to support our animal care and protection mission. Our efforts also aim to support the bonds between animals and their families; we aim to keep animals in their homes and out of our shelter. Towards this end, 2,245 dogs and puppies in our community attended various classes and playgroups. We provide one-on-one customized training for the more challenging animals in our care, allowing them to learn acceptable manners. Our behavior helpline helped 339 people by phone and hundreds more by email. Education program: our educators work with both adults and children to strengthen the human-animal bond. We held 84 lessons with 1,831 students in addition to our summer camp.
$536,119 spent$228,880 earned by the program12% of program spendingSpay and neuter-the potter league spay and neuter clinic performed 5,425 surgical procedures and provided 3,054 vaccines. Though our clinic already has very low pricing, we further reduced pricing through additional subsidies for a total of $20,813 to put spay/neuter within reach of everyone. Clients include individuals, animal shelters, animal rescues, and groups engaged in trap neuter and return of community cats.
$957,803 spent$1,613,944 earned by the program22% of program spendingVeterinary care: in october 2020, the potter league acquired the pets in need veterinary clinic (pin). Located in east providence, the clinic sees the pets of people living in rhode island who receive public assistance. Without the clinic, most of the pets we see would have nowhere else to go. Pets in need veterinary clinic (pin) was tranferred over to rhode island community pet project in april 2025.
$902,537 spentof which $81,443 as grants21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,338,346.
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 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $14M (+7%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS 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. 5 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
Bradley Shear
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $170k → $598k.
17 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
58% 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 ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.
“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
54% of ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
57% of ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS 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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M 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
ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS 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
Government funding ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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In Rhode Island
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
87%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC?
- ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,827,701 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($770,792). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $3,827,701 in grants to ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $770,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 74 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