Nevada · Nonprofit
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,817,462 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,001,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $29M
What The Animal Foundation does
Mission
To promote humane treatment of animals by operating an open-admission regional shelter and providing lost and found services, rabies observation, foster and adoption services, affordable vaccination clinic, low cost spay and neuter, community education and humane and sensitive euthanasia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organization operates a regional animal shelter to house and care for stray and unwanted animals until they can be placed for adoption, returned to their owner, transferred, or in some cases euthanized.
$13,039,537 spent$101,701 earned by the program89% of program spendingOrganization offers animals for adoption at low prices in an attempt to save the lives of unwanted animals and to reduce euthanasia at the shelter.
$1,401,240 spent$551,173 earned by the program10% of program spendingOrganization operates a clinic to spay and neuter animals moving from the shelter into adoptions, and to offer low-cost spay and neuter and vaccination services for the dogs and cats in the community.
$247,454 spent$457,637 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,688,231.
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 2023 to 2024, from $47M to $32M (−31%).
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 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Hilarie Grey
CEO
Board chair
Kevin Murakami
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $352k → $1.0M.
13 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 68% · 2019 76% · 2020 54% · 2021 55% · 2022 59% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
81% of THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $831k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ANIMAL 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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ANIMAL 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 THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION?
- THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,817,462 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,001,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $11,817,462 in grants to THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION?
- ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,001,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 98 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