Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Volunteer Services for Animals
Volunteer Services for Animals (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,761 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($92,683). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Volunteer Services for Animals does
Mission
Reduce overpopulation and suffering of companion animals and advocate for all animals and the environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Veterinary care and spay/neuter assistance for needy companion animal owners and homeless animals. Veterinary care, spay/neuter, medicine and food for animals in private shelters. Participation in rescue, veterinary needs and adoption of homeless dogs, domestic and feral cats. Via social media, advocate for companion animals, farm animals, animals raised for food, wildlife on land, sea and air, as well as laboratory and entertainment animals. Advocate for passage of humane legislation on local and national levels for all animals and network with local, national and international humane organizations. Educate the populace via media.
$39,248 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,248.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.4M (+79%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of Volunteer Services for Animals’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% 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.
Board chair
Joanne J Rongo
Chair-treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $36k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Services for Animals’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 Services for Animals leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 Volunteer Services for Animals.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 61% · 2019 42% · 2020 89% · 2021 59% · 2022 86% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Volunteer Services for Animals's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
63% of Volunteer Services for Animals's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $73k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Volunteer Services for Animals runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Volunteer Services for Animals
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Volunteer Services for Animals: 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 Volunteer Services for Animals?
- Volunteer Services for Animals (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,761 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($92,683). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Volunteer Services for Animals have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $194,761 in grants to Volunteer Services for Animals, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Volunteer Services for Animals?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $92,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Volunteer Services for Animals find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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