ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D200

Classification

4000

Street

87 OLIPHANT LN

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Mission and programs · 2024

• SHELTERING AND ADOPTIONS: THE LEAGUE INVESTS IN BEHAVIOR, FOSTER CARE, AND VETERINARY PROGRAMS TO ENSURE THAT ANIMALS ARE REHABILITATED AND ADOPTED. WE FOUND NEW HOMES FOR 1,493 ANIMALS, AND 183 LOST ANIMALS WERE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES. THE POTTER LEAGUE PROVIDED FREE VETERINARY WELLNESS CLINICS TO RESIDENTS OF PUBLIC HOUSING AND OTHERS WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY ACCESSING VETERINARY CARE, INCLUDING PHYSICAL EXAMS, VACCINES, AND MICROCHIPS, TO 1,058 ANIMALS WHOSE FAMILIES WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD CARE. OUR PET FOOD BANK AND VETERINARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS SUPPORT ANIMALS WHO BELONG TO FAMILIES THAT ARE ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED. WE SUPPLIED 48,399 POUNDS OF PET FOOD TO FOOD PANTRIES AND INDIVIDUALS AND SUBSIDIZED OVER $23,630 IN VETERINARY CARE FOR NEWPORT COUNTY RESIDENTS WHO COULD NOT AFFORD CARE FOR THEIR PETS. THE LEAGUE'S PETSAFE PROGRAM PROVIDED EMERGENCY HOUSING AND CARE FOR 85 PETS OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, NATURAL DISASTERS, FIRES, AND OTHER CRISES FOR A TOTAL OF 5,525 DAYS. COLLABORATION IS CRITICAL TO OUR MISSION. THE POTTER LEAGUE PARTNERS WITH THE MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER JR COMMUNITY CENTER, THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER, LUCY'S HEARTH, NEWPORT PUBLIC HOUSING, AND COYOTE SMARTS.

  Expenses $1,941,887 · Revenue $496,343

• EDUCATION, BEHAVIOR & TRAINING, AND COMMUNITY AWARENESS- BEHAVIOR AND TRAINING: AS THE ANIMAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR NEWPORT COUNTY (RI) AND BEYOND, THE POTTER LEAGUE OFFERS VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT OUR ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION MISSION. OUR EFFORTS ALSO AIM TO SUPPORT THE BONDS BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THEIR FAMILIES; WE AIM TO KEEP ANIMALS IN THEIR HOMES AND OUT OF OUR SHELTER. TOWARDS THIS END, 2,245 DOGS AND PUPPIES IN OUR COMMUNITY ATTENDED VARIOUS CLASSES AND PLAYGROUPS. WE PROVIDE ONE-ON-ONE CUSTOMIZED TRAINING FOR THE MORE CHALLENGING ANIMALS IN OUR CARE, ALLOWING THEM TO LEARN ACCEPTABLE MANNERS. OUR BEHAVIOR HELPLINE HELPED 339 PEOPLE BY PHONE AND HUNDREDS MORE BY EMAIL. EDUCATION PROGRAM: OUR EDUCATORS WORK WITH BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN TO STRENGTHEN THE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND. WE HELD 84 LESSONS WITH 1,831 STUDENTS IN ADDITION TO OUR SUMMER CAMP.

  Expenses $536,119 · Revenue $228,880

• SPAY AND NEUTER-THE POTTER LEAGUE SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC PERFORMED 5,425 SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND PROVIDED 3,054 VACCINES. THOUGH OUR CLINIC ALREADY HAS VERY LOW PRICING, WE FURTHER REDUCED PRICING THROUGH ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIES FOR A TOTAL OF $20,813 TO PUT SPAY/NEUTER WITHIN REACH OF EVERYONE. CLIENTS INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS, ANIMAL SHELTERS, ANIMAL RESCUES, AND GROUPS ENGAGED IN TRAP NEUTER AND RETURN OF COMMUNITY CATS.

  Expenses $957,803 · Revenue $1,613,944

• VETERINARY CARE: IN OCTOBER 2020, THE POTTER LEAGUE ACQUIRED THE PETS IN NEED VETERINARY CLINIC (PIN). LOCATED IN EAST PROVIDENCE, THE CLINIC SEES THE PETS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND WHO RECEIVE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. WITHOUT THE CLINIC, MOST OF THE PETS WE SEE WOULD HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. PETS IN NEED VETERINARY CLINIC (PIN) WAS TRANFERRED OVER TO RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY PET PROJECT IN APRIL 2025.

  Expenses $902,537 · Grants $81,443

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,997,078

  Expenses

  $5,209,182

  Contributions

  $3,061,920

  Grants paid

  $81,443

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,898,152

  Expenses

  $5,273,038

  Contributions

  $2,341,879

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,771,286

  Expenses

  $5,025,835

  Contributions

  $3,078,773

  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

  $5,762,873

  Expenses

  $4,599,449

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,474,633

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,199,640

  Expenses

  $3,836,028

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,530,327

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,836,381

  Expenses

  $3,201,479

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,623,126

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,500,692

  Expenses

  $2,747,284

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,152,705

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,959,823

  Expenses

  $2,285,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,295,874

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,854,291

  Expenses

  $2,005,372

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,469,659

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,306,149

  Expenses

  $1,930,070

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,391,879

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,998,587

  Expenses

  $1,847,584

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,958,741

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,898,291

  Expenses

  $1,844,659

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,848,598

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.

Grants made

• RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY PET PROJECT

  $71,166

  2024 · OPERATING ASSISTANCE

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Grants received

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $154,141

  2023 · ANIMAL WELFARE

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $136,811

  2024 · ANIMAL WELFARE (PRIMARY)

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $110,000

  2022 · POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $101,700

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $88,600

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $79,050

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC

  $29,309

  2022 · DESIGNATED DONATION/GRANT

• T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC

  $25,500

  2025 · MULTIPLE

• UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC

  $23,771

  2023 · DONOR DESIGNATION/GRANT

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $23,748

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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