Washington · Nonprofit
WORLD VETS
WORLD VETS (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,527 to it, the largest being SEAWORLD & BUSCH GARDENS CONSERVATION FUND ($650,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What World Vets does
Mission
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including wildlife rescue and conservation on the Galapagos Islands and the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helping animals, people and the places they call home. For nearly 25 years, World Vets has provided veterinary aid programs and support in over 50 countries on 6 continents benefiting hundreds of thousands of animals. Programs include spay/neuter, public health, street dog management through vaccination and sterilization, livestock programs, equine programs helping working horses and donkeys, disaster response, wildlife rescue and marine animal programs (including stranding response, rescue of sick, injured or stranded marine animals in the wild, research, protection & conservation). Each year we carry out numerous free sterilization campaigns for dogs and cats in various countries including a large-scale program in the Imbabura region of Ecuador where we have worked for over 16 years. World Vets operates a full-service, free of charge veterinary clinic for domestic animals in the Galapagos Islands and provides wildlife rescue services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year on the Galapagos Islands. In 2024 World Vets built the first wildlife rescue hospital on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos which is used to care for and treat a variety of mostly endangered and other…
$1,070,174 spent$238,067 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,070,174.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+40%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of WORLD VETS’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Cathy King DVM PHD
CEO
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 $20k → $379k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 VETS’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
WORLD VETS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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: 2017 50% · 2018 97% · 2019 68% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 68% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of WORLD VETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
WORLD VETS draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 VETS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WORLD VETS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $271k on record.
- Department of Commerce$271k
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 VETS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foundation World Vets Ecuador · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD VETS: 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 VETS?
- WORLD VETS (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,527 to it, the largest being SEAWORLD & BUSCH GARDENS CONSERVATION FUND ($650,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD VETS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,244,527 in grants to WORLD VETS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD VETS?
- SEAWORLD & BUSCH GARDENS CONSERVATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD VETS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing