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ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION

EIN 82-5477192 SANTA MONICA, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,437,882
Expenses 2024
$2,850,075

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
P19
Classification
1000
Street
2720 NEILSON WAY UNIT 5340

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

TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, WE PROMOTE ENACTING AND ENFORCING GOOD PUBLIC POLICIES. ENACTING GOOD LAWS DEPENDS UPON ELECTING GOOD LAWMAKERS, AND WE REMIND VOTERS WHICH CANDIDATES CARE ABOUT AND SUPPORT ANIMAL ISSUES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION BELIEVES THAT HELPING ANIMALS HELPS US ALL BY CREATING A MORE CIVIL SOCIETY WHERE PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND NATURE ARE IN BALANCE.

  • *FDA MODERNIZATION - CONTINUED TO PUSH FDA TO ADHERE TO FDA MODERNIZATION ACT 3.0 AND END ANIMAL TESTING* BARRED OWLS - FILED FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO STOP KILLING OF HALF A MILLION BARRED OWLS* BEAR BAITING - PROMOTED FINAL RULEMAKING ACTION BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO IMPOSE A BAN ON BEAR BAITING* BIG CATS - WORKED TO STOP ASSAULTS ON MOUNTAIN LIONS, BOBCATS AND OTHER NATIVE CATS IN THE WEST* WOLVES - BLOCKED CONGRESSIONAL EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR WOLVES* WILD HORSES - WORKED TO STOP ROUNDUP OF WILD HORSES AT A NATIONAL PARK* DAIRY COWS - CONTINUED SEEKING TO HALT MISTREATMENT OF DAIRY COWS THROUGH HYPER PRODUCTION OF MANDATED MILK IN NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

    Expenses $1,313,608

  • *CONTINUED TO WORK WITH CONGRESS TO GAIN SUPPORT FOR AN ANIMAL PROTECTION AGENDA AND FOR LAWS THAT PROVIDE THAT PROTECTION*BLOCKED EATS ACT IN CONGRESS, WHICH SEEKS TO REPEAL LAWS HALTING SALE OF PORK AND EGGS FROM PIGS KEPT IN SMALL CAGES AND LAYING HENS JAMMED IN BATTERY CAGES*PREVAILED IN FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDING BAN ON ANIMAL FIGHTING ON EVERY INCH OF U.S. SOIL*CONTINUED TO CAMPAIGN TO END MILK MANDATE IN SCHOOLS

    Expenses $611,206 · Revenue $50,000

  • * SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED FOUR TOP ALLIES IN CONGRESS DURING 2024 ELECTIONS* DEFEATED THREE ANTI-ANIMAL WELFARE INCUMBENTS IN U.S. HOUSE* WORKED TO SUPPORT DOZENS OF STATE CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE

    Expenses $452,003

  • * CONTINUED TO PROMOTE ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAWS AND LEGAL STANDARDS THROUGH OUR NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT COUNCIL, CONSISTING OF 27 MEMBERS, INCLUDING DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, ATTORNEYS GENERAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT* OBTAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT FOR THE FIGHT ACT BY OBTAINING BACKING OF NATIONAL SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION AND NATIONAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION

    Expenses $44,394

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.

  • Dr Annie Harvilicz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Suzy Bennitt

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sherry Kellett

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16
  • Candis Stern

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Deborah Wilson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joseph Goode

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stacey Kivowitz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ari Nessel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Wayne Pacelle

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $94,000
    From this org
    $94,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Scott Edwards

    GENERAL COUNSEL & BOARD SE

    Total calculated
    $165,000
    From this org
    $165,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $165,000

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
    $2,437,882
    Expenses
    $2,850,075
    Contributions
    $2,056,510
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,574,991
    Expenses
    $1,172,187
    Contributions
    $1,367,875
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,055,869
    Expenses
    $1,146,213
    Contributions
    $944,192
    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
    $1,219,575
    Expenses
    $806,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,037,757
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $834,237
    Expenses
    $730,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $591,276

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.