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ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE

EIN 36-2235155 CHICAGO RIDGE, IL

Revenue 2024
$6,164,442
Expenses 2024
$3,968,934

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D200
Classification
1400
Street
10305 SOUTHWEST HWY

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 · 2024

Mission

The Organization prevents cruelty to animals by the advancement of humane education and maintenance of animal shelters. The Animal Welfare League also provides animal adoption programs, veterinary, and clinical services.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Prevent cruelty to animals through the humane education and maintenance of animal shelters.

  • The Organization provides food, shelter, and medical care for unwanted, stray or lost animals. It offers spay/neuter services and veteranary service for limited income pet owners. It also provides information about humane treatment of animals, animal rescue, animal cruelty investigations, animal assisted therapy and a pet food pantry.

    Expenses $3,139,715 · Revenue $3,521,829

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Chris Higens

    President/Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Gail Kinzie

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Stephen Perns

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Debbie Figielski

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erick Nickerson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sue Svatos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shamiran Wagner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Leo Paul

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $177,433
    From this org
    $177,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,433
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $177,433

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,164,442
    Expenses
    $3,968,934
    Contributions
    $1,881,987
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,183,338
    Expenses
    $3,894,290
    Contributions
    $986,996
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,965,070
    Expenses
    $4,347,037
    Contributions
    $721,200
    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
    $3,746,761
    Expenses
    $4,028,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,659,773
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,642,610
    Expenses
    $4,128,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,668,542
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,360,523
    Expenses
    $4,324,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,147,953
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,434,209
    Expenses
    $4,901,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,424,537
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,322,715
    Expenses
    $6,434,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,248,903
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,322,715
    Expenses
    $6,434,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,248,903
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,809,961
    Expenses
    $6,855,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,192,967
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,161,073
    Expenses
    $6,911,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,390,597
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,472,345
    Expenses
    $6,245,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,528,367
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,416,592
    Expenses
    $6,111,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,420,736

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.