Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC
THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,733,604 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($3,150,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What The White Coat Waste Project Inc does
Mission
To educate and inform the public about the suffering of animals in publically-funded laboratories and experimentation facilities as well as wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Closed a UC Davis lab & retired 15+ cats. Ended the VAs final cat lab & reduced NIHs last in-house beagle lab to zero dogs. Spearheaded law banning VA dog, cat & primate tests. Rallied lawmakers to cut DOJ live tissue drills & pressure EPA to reinstate animal test phase-out. Exposed USDA bird flu & DOD/NIH beagle labs in China. Uncovered transgender mice tests, Navy cat lab & DOD dog contracts. Led effort to end Monkey Island & NIH bat labs. Exposs triggered EcoHealth debarment. Investigations cited by Wash Post, NY Post, Fox & more. Filed 3 complaints & 7 lawsuits. Ran national ad campaigns (most program costs) driving 674M+ impressions, 18.1M+ video views & 1.96M+ calls/petitionsgrowing our base, awareness & advocacy, fueling policy change, lab closures & rescues.
$4,221,941 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,221,941.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.0M to $4.0M (+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.
97% of THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $171k → $1.1M.
15 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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 WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 76% · 2019 45% · 2020 26% · 2021 52% · 2022 78% · 2023 88% — 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
44% of THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $620k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC has grown faster 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 THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT 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 WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC?
- THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,733,604 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($3,150,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $4,733,604 in grants to THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC?
- CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT 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 74 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