Maryland · Nonprofit
WHISKERS INC
WHISKERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,930 to it, the largest being THE BLAINE AND LOREN WARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Whiskers Inc does
Mission
The organization rescues animals who are abandoned, homeless, sick, injured/and or neglected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Whiskers is a nonprofit 501(c)3 no-kill volunteer animal rescue, serving allegany county md and the surrounding areas in nearby maryland and west virginia. We rescue animals who are abandoned, homeless, sick, injured/and or neglected. Animals in our care are spayed or neutered, socialized and receive all appropriate veterinary care and treatment while awaiting adoption. Some are placed in foster homes while they await placement in their permanent homes. We do not adopt on a first-come, first-serve basis. We place animals in loving, responsible, committed permanent homes, while take considerable care in finding good matches and educating prospective adopters about the responsibilities and costs of bringing a pet into their homes and lives. Any animal that does not find a home, or is not suitable for adoption, due to health issues or lack of socialization, etc., will remain at the rescue, safe and loved, for the rest of his or her life. We also strive to work with area shelters and other rescue organizations to develop a network in order to create a better world for homeless pets.
$50,958 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,958.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2k to $3k (+76%).
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 WHISKERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $727 → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WHISKERS 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
WHISKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
76% of WHISKERS INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.
Against its field
WHISKERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,003 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,003 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WHISKERS INC
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 Maryland
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHISKERS INC: 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 WHISKERS INC?
- WHISKERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,930 to it, the largest being THE BLAINE AND LOREN WARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHISKERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $53,930 in grants to WHISKERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHISKERS INC?
- THE BLAINE AND LOREN WARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHISKERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing