Connecticut · Nonprofit
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,269 to it, the largest being Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Westport Animal Shelter Advocates does
Mission
Our organization is dedicated to the care and welfare of homeless dogs in Fairfield County. Our primary focus is attending to the needs of impounded dogs at Westport Animal Control in Westport Connecticut including providing funds for their veterinary care and training. On a daily basis we assist Westport animal control officers with feeding and exercising the impounded dogs. Prior to any adoptions we perform home and reference checks to ensure that the dogs most of whom have suffered some level of neglect and or abuse are safely placed in loving homes. We also provide assistance to Fairfield County residents who are struggling to feed and to provide needed veterinary care for their pets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providing veterinary care for impounded Westport Animal Control dogs and local residents. Approximate number of dogs helped during the course of the year is 45. The monies allocated to the shelter for veterinary care by the town of Westport is insufficient relative to the necessary vetting for these often neglected and abused dogs many of whom are abandoned within Westport town lines from residents in nearby towns and cities.
$68,242 spent79% of program spendingProviding food and supplies for impounded Westport Animal Control dogs and for dogs in our foster network of homes who care for dogs from other parts of Fairfield County outside of Westport town lines. The Westport shelter only takes in strays and seized dogs from within the town lines.
$10,021 spent12% of program spendingTraining for impounded Westport Animal Control dogs who without training would not be adoptable.
$7,688 spent9% of program spendingTraveling to local schools to share information about the town shelter and our organization. Our president visits several elementary schools each year to make a presentation usually accompanied by a dog from one of our foster homes.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,951.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $73k to $112k (+55%).
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.
100% of WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $92.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES’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
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 69% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES 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 WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES?
- WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,269 to it, the largest being Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $149,269 in grants to WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES?
- Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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