PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D200

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 849

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

• TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT SHELTER FOR MISTREATED, ABANDONED, AND RETIRED PERFOMING AND EXOTIC ANIMALS. THIS INCLUDES HOUSING, FEEDING, PROVIDING VETERINARY CARE, AND CLEANING ON A DAILY BASIS ALL ACCOMPLISHED BY APPROXIMATELY 35 TRAINED ANIMAL KEEPERS ON A 24 HOUR BASIS SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK.

  Expenses $3,455,721

• EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING ABUSES IN THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD, CIRCUSES, ZOOS, THEME PARKS, FAIRS, ETC. CARRIED OUT THROUGH NEWSLETTER, CONFERENCES, EMAILS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS.

  Expenses $647,312

• CONSULTATION SERVICES TO ZOOS, THEME PARKS, FILM PRODUCTIONS, ETC. OPEN HOUSES TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, ATTENDING AND SPEAKING AT CONFERENCES REGARDING ANIMAL ABUSES IN ENTERTAINMENT.

  Expenses $215,770

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.

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

  $6,014,658

  Expenses

  $5,033,380

  Contributions

  $4,371,207

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,739,941

  Expenses

  $5,017,252

  Contributions

  $8,850,676

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,593,574

  Expenses

  $4,362,860

  Contributions

  $5,155,026

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,444,393

  Expenses

  $4,348,493

  Contributions

  $5,367,393

  Grants paid

  $0

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.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,116,012

  Expenses

  $4,040,933

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,519,640

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,545,677

  Expenses

  $3,644,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,466,680

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,402,948

  Expenses

  $3,744,554

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,570,423

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,110,483

  Expenses

  $3,633,380

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,852,306

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,763,941

  Expenses

  $3,534,605

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,443,123

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,810,612

  Expenses

  $3,200,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,166,248

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,894,199

  Expenses

  $3,119,242

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,561,797

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,688,048

  Expenses

  $3,213,207

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,791,171

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,001,939

  Expenses

  $3,251,452

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,485,917

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $3,125,982

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,616,709

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $273,642

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $178,902

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $154,456

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · Animal Welfare

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $85,500

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $47,698

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $31,810

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $30,000

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,623

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $26,700

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $10,225 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $6,205 to charity

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $5,250 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $2,031 to charity

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $5,825 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,854 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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