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WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY

WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,780 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($205,375). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$682k
Revenue FY2025
29
Funders on record
$725k
Grants received
$805k
Net assets
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve17.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 126 ($115k) Expenses 206 ($117k) Net assets 96 ($68k)2019 Revenue 129 ($118k) Expenses 210 ($120k) Net assets 94 ($66k)2020 Revenue 187 ($171k) Expenses 184 ($105k) Net assets 187 ($132k)2021 Revenue 306 ($280k) Expenses 340 ($194k) Net assets 308 ($218k)2022 Revenue 467 ($426k) Expenses 463 ($264k) Net assets 538 ($381k)2023 Revenue 416 ($380k) Expenses 655 ($374k) Net assets 551 ($390k)2024 Revenue 728 ($665k) Expenses 676 ($385k) Net assets 946 ($669k)2025 Revenue 747 ($682k) Expenses 950 ($541k) Net assets 1137 ($805k)
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Revenue (747)Expenses (950)Net assets (1137)Peer revenue range

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
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
17
$2k
18
$2k
19
$66k
20
$86k
21
$162k
22
$7k
23
$279k
24
$140k
25
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $24k → $118k.

8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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

WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

60% 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 WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY.

28%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 93% · 2019 71% · 2020 42% · 2021 50% · 2022 27% · 2023 34%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

71% of WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

60% of WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY'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 $292k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 8 states.

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
MD
NC

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

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Rhode Island

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

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 WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: 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 WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,780 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($205,375). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $724,780 in grants to WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY 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.

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 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing