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WORLD FEDERATION FOR ANIMALS INC

EIN 04-3431930 JAMAICA PLAIN, MA

Revenue 2024
$823,317
Expenses 2024
$686,165

Program services were 59.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D300
Classification
4000
Street
25 CHESTNUT SQ

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE WORLD FEDERATION FOR ANIMALS (WFA) IS A MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL ANIMALS AND END EXPLOITATION AND SUFFERING. WFA HAS THREE PRIMARY FOCUS AREAS: POLICY RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND INFORMATION SHARING; COORDINATED ADVOCACY AGENDA; AND POLICY ADVOCACY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE WORLD FEDERATION FOR ANIMALS (WFA) IS A MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL ANIMALS AND END EXPLOITATION AND SUFFERING. WFA HAS THREE PRIMARY FOCUS AREAS: POLICY RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND INFORMATION SHARING; COORDINATED ADVOCY AGENDA; AND POLICY ADVOCACY.

  • 1) PROVISION AND COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS SUCH AS THE SUCCESSFUL ADVOCACY OF A UN ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY 5.2 RESOLUTION ON THE ANIMAL WELFARE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABILITY NEXUS.2) SECRETARIAT SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (ICFAW) IN RELATION TO ADVOCACY TO WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH (WOAH/OIE).

    Expenses $405,542 · Revenue $553,121

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.

  • Britta Riis

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7
  • Roly Owers

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Wim Dekok

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Chris Sherwood

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carolina Galvani

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Bowles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Glenys Oogjes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josphat Ngonyo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jurgen Plinz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sue Leary

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Reineke Hameleers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Tricia Crossdell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Thew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nijjar Sirjana

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Philip Lymbery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Glassey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benny Andersson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josef Pfabigan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Edward

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Yeates

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $134,564
    From this org
    $127,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,754
    Hours/week
    37

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
    $823,317
    Expenses
    $686,165
    Contributions
    $257,990
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $684,847
    Expenses
    $706,892
    Contributions
    $203,462
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $746,363
    Expenses
    $564,751
    Contributions
    $263,486
    Grants paid
    $598

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
    $549,709
    Expenses
    $363,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $381,274
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $191,697
    Expenses
    $81,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,878
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $60,745
    Expenses
    $93,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,979
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,406
    Expenses
    $58,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,020
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $123,630
    Expenses
    $73,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,610
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,673
    Expenses
    $66,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,474
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $39,004
    Expenses
    $99,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,477
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $101,485
    Expenses
    $106,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,958
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $12,243
    Expenses
    $35,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,688

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

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

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.