Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Fund for Animals Inc
The Fund for Animals Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,869,864 to it, the largest being Humane World for Animals Inc ($20,561,769). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Fund for Animals Inc does
Mission
To provide sanctuary, medical treatment and other hands-on care and rescue of exploited, injured, orphaned, abandoned and underserved animals; continued from part iii, line 1 to promote the humane treatment of all animals and the prevention of cruelty through education and advocacy; and to foster humane conduct toward animals and encourage and support cooperation toward that end among all persons and entities interested in humane activities. The fund for animals was founded in 1967 by prominent author and animal advocate cleveland amory. Since then, the fund has helped thousands of animals by operating renowned animal care facilities, delivering free veterinary services to underserved communities, and providing advocacy and education opportunities for students and the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Direct animal care services: through its sanctuaries and veterinary care programs, the fund for animals (the fund) provided hands-on care and safe haven for more than 10,400 animals in 2023, including those rescued from cruelty and neglect, victims of the exotic pet trade, refugees from research labs and pets in remote underserved communities. (continued on schedule o)
$13,633,203 spentof which $5,903,572 as grants100% of program spendingHumane education and advocacy: the fund for animals' sanctuaries represent living examples of the range of problems and threats facing wild and domestic animals, drawing attention to what happens to those animals when individual citizens, institutions, or policy makers make bad decisions. Animals enter the fund's programs from all over the country and staff members provide service and expertise throughout the nation, advising government agencies, private institutions, and the public on policies that benefit both domestic and wild animals and wild animal habitats. (continued on schedule o)
$64,756 spent$5,722 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,697,959.
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.
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 $8.3M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $7.5M.
12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Fund for Animals Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 Fund for Animals Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 The Fund for Animals Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 61% · 2021 92% · 2022 91% · 2023 97% — 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
46% of The Fund for Animals Inc'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
84% of The Fund for Animals Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $894k 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.
Organizations like The Fund for Animals Inc
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Humane Society International · exempt
- Humane Society of the United States New Jersey Branch Inc · exempt
- Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc · exempt
- The Humane Society of the United States · exempt
- Humane Society Internationalcanada · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Fund for Animals Inc: 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 Fund for Animals Inc?
- The Fund for Animals Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,869,864 to it, the largest being Humane World for Animals Inc ($20,561,769). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Fund for Animals Inc have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $25,869,864 in grants to The Fund for Animals Inc, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Fund for Animals Inc?
- Humane World for Animals Inc is the largest funder on record, with $20,561,769 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Fund for Animals Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 55 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