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Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc

Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,678 to it, the largest being THE SHELTER INC ($35,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$117k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$49k
Net assets
$236k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc does

Mission

Promote animal spay/neuter

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide medical services and services needed to facilitate adoption.

    $102,490 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,490.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($183k)2018 Revenue 139 ($96k) Expenses 116 ($78k) Net assets 110 ($201k)2019 Revenue 175 ($121k) Expenses 147 ($99k) Net assets 121 ($223k)2020 Revenue 153 ($106k) Expenses 157 ($106k) Net assets 121 ($222k)2021 Revenue 157 ($108k) Expenses 165 ($112k) Net assets 119 ($219k)2022 Revenue 133 ($92k) Expenses 124 ($84k) Net assets 124 ($227k)2023 Revenue 194 ($134k) Expenses 171 ($116k) Net assets 134 ($245k)2024 Revenue 135 ($94k) Expenses 172 ($117k) Net assets 121 ($222k)2025 Revenue 168 ($117k) Expenses 151 ($102k) Net assets 129 ($236k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (151)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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 $245k to $222k (−9%).

$183k
$201k
$223k
$222k
$219k
$227k
$245k
$222k
$236k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$18k
’18
$22k
’19
−$367
’20
−$4k
’21
$8k
’22
$18k
’23
−$23k
’24
$14k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $319 → $13k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc’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

Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% — 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

100% of Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $606 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

96%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc?
Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,678 to it, the largest being THE SHELTER INC ($35,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $48,678 in grants to Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc?
THE SHELTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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