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TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE

TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,904 to it, the largest being LARK FOUNDATION ($126,794). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$243k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$137k
Net assets
$777k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Tri County Animal Protection League does

Mission

Prevention of cruelty to animals, releive suffering among animals, extend humane education and maintain an animal shelter.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Prevention of cruelty to animals, releive suffering among animals, extend humane education and maintain animal shelter.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($292k) Expenses 100 ($338k) Net assets 100 ($909k)2018 Revenue 100 ($293k) Expenses 94 ($318k) Net assets 97 ($884k)2019 Revenue 101 ($296k) Expenses 90 ($305k) Net assets 96 ($876k)2020 Revenue 79 ($230k) Expenses 88 ($298k) Net assets 89 ($808k)2021 Revenue 83 ($243k) Expenses 81 ($274k) Net assets 86 ($777k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (83)Expenses (81)Net assets (86)

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 $1.6M to $1.5M (−6%).

$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.5M
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$46k
’17
−$25k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$68k
’20
−$31k
’21
4.0
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed1212121212
Joined·+4+2+1+1
No longer listed·4211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $10k.

From the IRS filings of TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE’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

TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

93% of TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
IA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

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

Organizations like TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE: 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 TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE?
TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,904 to it, the largest being LARK FOUNDATION ($126,794). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $136,904 in grants to TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE?
LARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 4 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