New York · Nonprofit
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION (New York) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,448,324 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,424,532). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What World Animal Protection does
Mission
World Animal Protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. We expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. For over 75 years, we've been rewriting the story for animals. Working across almost 50 countries with offices in 12, enables us to engage with and influence global decision makers. We prioritize helping animals in farming and wild animals exploited for use in entertainment, as pets, and in fashion. Our values our global values and behaviours shape everything that we do. We have seven values that form a central part of how we work together. 1. We are global 2. We are diverse, equitable, and inclusive 3. We are collaborative 4. We are agile 5. We grow our people 6. We are accountable 7. We are courageous by embracing these values and behaviours we will achieve our vision and mission for animals. Our global strategy 2021-30 food systems and wildlife are two pillars of our global strategy for the next decade that have unique, interconnected goals. Food systems strategy we will end factory farming by disrupting the cruel and destructive systems that support its expansion and driving growth…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Animals in the wild: shutting down miami seaquarium following several years of campaign actions, the dolphin company was officially removed as the owner of the miami seaquarium venue in 2025. Local officials solicited bids for proposed renovations of the venue and the selected proposal, while continuing to use the venue as an aquarium, specifically stated that no marine mammals will be kept at the future facility, representing a significant change in the industry. We continued to pressure officials and the new owners to reject any exhibition of live animals at the future venue and have continued engaging with local supporters and volunteers in miami to build support for no animal exhibition at the new venue. Ending the sale of animals in pet stores our support, testimony, and resources helped to pass two of the most expansive pet sales bans in the country to date in easton, pennsylvania and west hollywood, california. The west hollywood ban is the first of its kind as it also includes hermit crabs, and often overlooked species captures and trafficked for the pet trade. In addition, with support of a grantor, we successfully introduced bills in the new york state legislature and…
$5,655,506 spentof which $2,890,692 as grants$3,929 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,655,506.
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 $6.1M to $15M (+141%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tricia Coadsdell
Global CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $620k → $479k.
19 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 funders by total. 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
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 42% · 2019 90% · 2020 40% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 29% — 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
32% of WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
64% of WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION'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 $5.9M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $37
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- World Animal Protection International · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: 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 WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION?
- WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION (New York) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,448,324 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,424,532). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $16,448,324 in grants to WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,424,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 100 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