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CITIZENS FOR ANIMALS

EIN 45-5362152 ROLLING MEADOWS, IL

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Revenue 2025
$85,349
Expenses 2025
$43,671

Program services were 70.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1000
Street
2118 PLUM GROVE ROAD STE 181

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

CITIZENS FOR ANIMALS CFA WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS PRIMARILY IN INDIA. THE OBJECTIVE OF CFA IS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE PROJECTS PRIMARILY BY THE HUMANE ANIMAL SOCIETY HAS A REGISTERED INDIAN CHARITABLE TRUST IN COIMBATORE INDIA. HAS RESCUES AND REHABILITATES ANIMALS IN COIMBATORE CONDUCTS ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL AND ANTI-RABIES VACCINATION PROGRAMS AND CREATES AWARENESS OF THE COMPASSIONATE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. CFA WILL ACTIVELY RAISE FUNDS FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT CATER TO THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS. EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED WILL BE: PROVIDING VACCINATIONS RUNNING ADOPTION CAMPS EDUCATING SCHOOL CHILDREN AND PET OWNERS AND CONDUCTING ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL PROGRAMS.

  • Over the past year Citizens for Animals has made a significant contribution to animal welfare initiatives in India by providing vital support to Humane Animal Society HAS in Coimbatore. A major focus of its efforts was sponsoring the care of permanent-resident animals at the HAS Sanctuary ensuring that those unable to be released or rehomed continued to receive the attention and care they require. Citizens for Animals also played a key role in mobilizing resources for the Societys annual mass rabies vaccination and surveillance program strengthening community health and rabies prevention efforts. In addition the organization facilitated the development of educational materials for children through STRAW India helping raise awareness about rabies prevention responsible animal interactions and compassion toward animals. CFA also facilitated volunteer activities at the rescue center of Humane Animal Society helping to build compassion and kindness toward street animals.

    Expenses $30,722 · Grants $25,174

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elsa Mary Thomas

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ling Tien Chung

    Secretary and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Preethi Krishnan

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jessy Paul

    Director - term ended December 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Meena Jambulingam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $85,349
    Expenses
    $43,671
    Contributions
    $62,086
    Grants paid
    $25,174
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $74,881
    Expenses
    $56,780
    Contributions
    $63,972
    Grants paid
    $40,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $198,715
    Expenses
    $76,854
    Contributions
    $193,400
    Grants paid
    $52,436
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $136,385
    Expenses
    $87,990
    Contributions
    $135,988
    Grants paid
    $28,860

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Ling Tien Chung
Mailing address
930 W PeregrinePalatine IL 60067

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2018, reinstated 15 June 2018.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.