New York · Nonprofit
SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES
SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,108 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($120,788). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $189k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Shelter Outreach Services does
Mission
Provide low cost spay and neuter services to animals of low income families and homeless animals
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sos sterilized over 14,500 animals in 2024. The animals sterilized were animals in need including shelter dogs and cats, barn cats, feral cats, dogs and cats from rescue groups and dogs and cats from families of low income. Sos provided access to veterinary care for these animal populations who would otherwise not have received veterinary services. In august 2018, sos expanded its services and now has the ability to have two teams on the road on any given day, allowing sos to meet the need and requests for high quality high volume spay neuter in our region. Sos is now able to hold 40-45 clinics per month as needed (up from 30 clinics per month). Sos is a model program on a national level and serves a large regional area in nys. Sos provides service for 10+ counties in the finger lakes, central ny and southern tier regions and beyond. Sos also has a teaching collaboration with the cornell university college of veterinary medicine, where the veterinary students join sos to gain hands-on surgical experience and experience with hqhvsn and shelter medicine. Since program inception in 2003, sos has sterilized more than 228,000 animals.
$1,135,088 spent$1,134,259 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,135,088.
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 $469k to $1.2M (+154%).
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.
35% of SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Leslie Appel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $80k → $33k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 OUTREACH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 OUTREACH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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 OUTREACH SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES: 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 OUTREACH SERVICES?
- SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,108 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($120,788). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $189,108 in grants to SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES?
- THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is the largest funder on record, with $120,788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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