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THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY

THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,125 to it, the largest being WALTHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$6k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What The Happy Animal Sanctuary does

Mission

The purpose is to provide animals with good food and good health.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide food and good health to animals

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 23 ($1k) Expenses 102 ($3k) Net assets 12 ($256)2021 Revenue 81 ($4k) Expenses 132 ($4k) Net assets 22 ($481)2022 Revenue 146 ($8k) Expenses 145 ($4k) Net assets 170 ($4k)2023 Revenue 123 ($6k) Expenses 253 ($8k) Net assets 111 ($2k)2024 Revenue 192 ($10k) Expenses 298 ($9k) Net assets 155 ($3k)2025 Revenue 160 ($8k) Expenses 206 ($6k) Net assets 252 ($6k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (160)Expenses (206)Net assets (252)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $481 to $4k (+673%).

$2k
$256
$481
$4k
$2k
$3k
$6k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’19
−$2k
’20
$225
’21
$3k
’22
−$1k
’23
$972
’24
$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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

THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

NY
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY: 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 HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,125 to it, the largest being WALTHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,125 in grants to THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY.
Who is the largest funder of THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
WALTHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HAPPY ANIMAL SANCTUARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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