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ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE

EIN 13-5655952 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$6,170,763
Expenses 2024
$7,585,554

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D200
Classification
1420
Street
900 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE

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

SINCE 1951, THE ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO ALLEVIATING ANIMAL SUFFERING CAUSED BY PEOPLE. WE SEEK TO IMPROVE THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS EVERYWHERE: IN AGRICULTURE, IN COMMERCE, IN OUR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES, IN RESEARCH, AND IN THE WILD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ALLEVIATE ANIMAL SUFFERING CAUSED BY PEOPLE.

  • AWI PROGRAMS ADVANCE ITS MISSION THROUGH STRATEGICALLY CRAFTED POLICY AND LEGAL ADVOCACY, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICYMAKERS, SCIENTISTS, INDUSTRY, EDUCATORS, OTHER NGOS, THE MEDIA, AND THE PUBLIC. WE SEEK SCIENTIFICALLY GROUNDED PROTECTIONS FOR ANIMALS IN ALL SETTINGS, AND ROBUST ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE PROTECTIONS.

    Expenses $6,891,881 · Grants $1,401,530 · Revenue $10,954

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.

  • ALAN KESSOCK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLINE GRIFFIN ESQ

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHY LISS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $65,210
    From this org
    $65,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CHRIS MILLER DVM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JILL CAREY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY LEE JENSVOLD PHD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM STOKES DVM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL MARCHIONE

    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $178,923
    From this org
    $154,493
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,430
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,493
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,715
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,715
    Filer's total
    $178,923

  • ROBIN JACOBSOHN

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $197,441
    From this org
    $170,861
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,580
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,861
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,481
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,099
    Filer's total
    $197,441

  • SUSAN MILLWARD

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $190,448
    From this org
    $181,013
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,435
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,013
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,992
    Nontaxable benefits
    $443
    Filer's total
    $190,448

  • ANNMARIE BLANEY

    DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $129,192
    From this org
    $123,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,093
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAVID TILFORD

    SENIOR WRITER/EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $140,505
    From this org
    $115,237
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,268
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOHANNA HAMBURGER

    DIR OF TERRESTRIAL WILDLIFE

    Total calculated
    $132,796
    From this org
    $118,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,697
    Hours/week
    40

  • GEORGIA HANCOCK

    MARINE WILDLIFE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $124,004
    From this org
    $118,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,905
    Hours/week
    40

  • NAOMI ROSE

    SENIOR SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $141,307
    From this org
    $111,743
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,564
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $6,170,763
    Expenses
    $7,585,554
    Contributions
    $5,004,927
    Grants paid
    $1,401,530
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,972,836
    Expenses
    $7,216,776
    Contributions
    $6,942,035
    Grants paid
    $1,357,746
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,353,156
    Expenses
    $6,118,926
    Contributions
    $10,520,176
    Grants paid
    $1,272,250

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
    $7,420,921
    Expenses
    $4,895,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,635,322

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,322,785
    Expenses
    $4,242,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,708,511

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,845,174
    Expenses
    $4,157,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,936,310

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,264,862
    Expenses
    $4,091,811
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,204,462

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,934,276
    Expenses
    $3,575,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,880,796

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,934,276
    Expenses
    $3,580,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,880,796

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,404,128
    Expenses
    $2,737,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,387,912

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,838,552
    Expenses
    $3,054,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,433,837

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,426,745
    Expenses
    $3,727,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,001,730

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,327,638
    Expenses
    $9,059,226
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,907,191

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 on its 2024 return

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.