Maryland · Nonprofit
THE PET CARE TRUST
THE PET CARE TRUST (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,463,116 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PET PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION INC ($2,341,116). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The Pet Care Trust does
Program
Pets in the classroom is an educational grant program that provides financial support to teachers to purchase and maintain small animals in the classroom. This gives children an opportunity to interact with pets, which is an experience that can help shape their lives for years to come. More than 4,100 grants to teachers were granted during 2019.
$626,257 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+27%).
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
Melinda Thomas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $365k → $227k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest World Pet Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PET CARE TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of THE PET CARE TRUST’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 PET CARE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 PET CARE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
THE PET CARE TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE PET CARE TRUST has grown faster 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 THE PET CARE TRUST
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PET CARE TRUST: 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 PET CARE TRUST?
- THE PET CARE TRUST (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,463,116 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PET PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION INC ($2,341,116). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PET CARE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,463,116 in grants to THE PET CARE TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PET CARE TRUST?
- AMERICAN PET PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,341,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PET CARE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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