Georgia · Nonprofit
Shelter Animals Count
Shelter Animals Count (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,577,810 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($639,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $864k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $822k
What Shelter Animals Count does
Mission
To create, share and steward the national database of sheltered animals that provides facts and enables insights to save lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Shelter Animals Count (SAC) has continued to accomplish its mission of data collection and presentation for various animal welfare organizations. In 2024, 7,525 organizations were registered and impacted by SAC through The National Database, providing valuable information on animal shelter and other data. Of the total 7,525 organizations, 4,515 were rescues (60%), 2,823 were shelters (37.5%), and 187 were non-sheltering service providers (2.5%). Members who submitted 12 consecutive months of data at the end of 2024 totaled 1,960. Through reports and dashboards, SAC provides animal welfare statistics for the general public and animal welfare industry professionals alike.
$501,686 spentof which $15,000 as grants$20,837 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $501,686.
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 $359k to $789k (+119%).
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: 2020 8% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Shelter Animals Count’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Stephanie Filer
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Keiley
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $150k → $368k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Shelter Animals Count’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
Shelter Animals Count 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
72% 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 Shelter Animals Count.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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
75% of Shelter Animals Count's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
Shelter Animals Count draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Shelter Animals Count runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Shelter Animals Count
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shelter Animals Count: 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 Shelter Animals Count?
- Shelter Animals Count (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,577,810 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($639,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shelter Animals Count have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,577,810 in grants to Shelter Animals Count, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shelter Animals Count?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $639,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shelter Animals Count find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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