Ohio · Nonprofit
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,763,861 to it, the largest being FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION FIFTH THIRD BANK NA ($824,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Save the Animals Foundation does
Mission
To provide shelter, medical care, and adoption services for animals (particularly cats and dogs) in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Physical and medical care of approx. 765 animals prior to adoption. Placements of approximately 405 animals in caring homes.
$1,265,670 spent$44,302 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,265,670.
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 $3.0M to $4.3M (+42%).
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.
83% of SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $63k → $409k.
11 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
38% 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 SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 67% · 2019 48% · 2020 33% · 2021 33% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — 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
48% of SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
77% of SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k 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
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: 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 SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION?
- SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,763,861 to it, the largest being FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION FIFTH THIRD BANK NA ($824,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,763,861 in grants to SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION?
- FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION FIFTH THIRD BANK NA is the largest funder on record, with $824,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 51 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