Florida · Nonprofit
Veterinary Innovation Council
Veterinary Innovation Council (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $479k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Veterinary Innovation Council does
Mission
The Organization's mission is to convene the brightest minds in the veterinary profession and industry together to tackle innovation opportunities that lift up all animal health care segments including caregivers, academia, suppliers, and consumers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Veterinary Innovation Council (VIC) first convened at the NAVC Conference 2016 in Orlando, Florida in January, 2016. The VIC was formed to act as the first veterinary organization that works industry-wide to focus on positive change and push the envelope for innovative solutions across professional boundaries. The program is currently focused on innovation in the area of Telehealth solutions for veterinary practices. In addition, it gathers data to develop awareness of resources available, success stories and toolkits for implementation, and helps to clarify the legislation around Telehealth. It oversees the Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy that focuses on partnerships between educational institutions, students, and startups. It also oversees the Veterinary Innovation Summit, a three day conference focused on veterinary innovation. The Summit provides education to interested individuals on innovations impacting the veterinary healthcare community. Part of this event also includes the recognition of selected students for their research and ideas for future innovations to improve animal care. The Summit is typically an annual event.
$447,218 spent$125,383 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,218.
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 2023 to 2024, from $508k to $251k (−51%).
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.
74% of Veterinary Innovation Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Aaron Massecar
Executive Director (end 3/25)
Board chair
Jules Benson BVScMRCVSAVP
Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $100k → $65k.
From the IRS filings of Veterinary Innovation Council’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
Veterinary Innovation Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
95% 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 Veterinary Innovation Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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
Veterinary Innovation Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, 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
Veterinary Innovation Council runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Veterinary Innovation Council
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Eastern States Veterinary Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Veterinary Innovation Council: 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 Veterinary Innovation Council?
- Veterinary Innovation Council (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterinary Innovation Council have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $315,000 in grants to Veterinary Innovation Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterinary Innovation Council?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterinary Innovation Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing