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ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA

EIN 74-2493030 PHOENIX, AZ

Largest nonprofits in Arizona

Revenue 2024
$385,990
Expenses 2024
$446,643

Program services were 95.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D200
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 33093

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 MISSION OF THE ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA IS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND ARIZONA'S ANIMALS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF AZ IS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND ARIZONA'S ANIMALS.

  • COMPANION ANIMALSTHE SPAY NEUTER HOTLINE- PROVIDES SPAY/NEUTER SERVICES FOR PETS AND OUTDOOR CATS IN ARIZONA.ADLA'S TELEPHONE AND WEB BASED SPAY/NEUTER HOTLINE REFERRAL SERVICE CONTINUED STATEWIDE OPERATIONS IN 2024. IT MADE REFERRALS TO PET SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAMS AND CLINICS THROUGHOUT ARIZONA. SPAY NEUTER HOTLINE'S LARGEST OPERATION PROVIDES TRAP, NEUTER, RETURN (" TNR") SERVICES IN MARICOPA COUNTY AND SURROUNDING AREAS, SCHEDULING APPOINTMENTS AT MULTIPLE VETERINARY CLINICS, LENDING HUMANE TRAPS AND COACHING CAREGIVERS ON HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY TRAP CATS. ADLA FIXED 7063 OUTDOOR CATS IN 2024. WE ALSO CONTINUED TO WORK CLOSELY WITH ONE MUNICIPALITY AND BEGAN WORKING WITH TWO OTHERS TO PROVIDE TRAP, NEUTER, RETURN SERVICES PAID FOR BY THE EACH CITY FOR A SMALL GROUP OF CAREGIVERS WHO NEEDED ASSISTANCE TO COVER SURGERY COSTS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDED REFERRALS FOR OTHER TRAP, NEUTER, RETURN PROGRAMS AROUND THE STATE. MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY CLINICS DONATED FREE SPAY AND NEUTER SERVICES VALUED AT $53,900.THE HOTLINE ALSO MADE REFERRALS TO PET OWNERS WHO NEEDED LOW COST SPAY/ NEUTER OR FREE SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND, IN GRAHAM COUNTY PROVIDED VOUCHERS FOR FREE SPAY/ NEUTER SERVICES AT THE DESERT CROSS CLINIC IN THATCHER. TOGETHER WE HELPED 95 FAMILIES, SPAYING AND NEUTERING A TOTAL OF 73 CATS AND 80 DOGS FOR THEM. THROUGH ADLA'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE ALLIANCE FOR COMPANION ANIMALS, IT JOINED OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND LOCAL FUNDERS TO CONTINUE FIX ADOPT SAVE, A CAMPAIGN ADDRESSING DOG AND CAT HOMELESSNESS IN MARICOPA COUNTY BY PROVIDING PET SPAY/NEUTERS, VACCINES AND MICROCHIPS. WILDLIFEADLA'S WILDLIFE PROGRAM FOCUSES ON PROTECTING HABITAT AND KEY SPECIES IN ARIZONA. ADLA MONITORS THE ARIZONA GAME AND FISH COMMISSION AND DEPARTMENT. GENERAL EDUCATION/OUTREACH THROUGH ITS WEBSITE, VOICEMAIL SYSTEMS, VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA SUCH AS FACEBOOK, NEXTDOOR AND INSTGRAM, ADLA WORKS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT ISSUES AFFECTING ARIZONA'S ANIMALS.ADLA CONTINUED ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE "VOICES FOR ARIZONA'S ANIMALS!" CAMPAIGN, ENCOURAGING MEMBERS OF THE ANIMAL PROTECTION COMMUNITY TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND TO VOTE.LEGISLATIVEADLA VOLUNTEERS MONITORED PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN ARIZONA SO THAT IT COULD COMMENT ON ANY PENDING MEASURES AFFECTING ANIMALS, SUPPORT THOSE THAT WOULD BENEFIT ANIMALS AND OPPOSE THOSE THAT WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO ANIMALS. IT ALSO COORDINATED COMMUNICATIONS AMONG A NUMBER OF ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL ADVOCATES WHO HAVE AN INTEREST IN LEGISLATION. IT COORDINATED GRASSROOTS VOLUNTEERS, AND THE WORK OF PEER ORGANIZATIONS, ACTING AS A RESOURCE FOR ANIMAL ADVOCATES AND LEGISLATORS ON A VARIETY OF ANIMAL ISSUES. IT ALSO PROVIDED SUPPORT TO RURAL SHELTERS THROUGHOUT ARIZONA TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS AND TO SEEK THEIR INPUT ON PENDING LEGISLATION THAT MIGHT AFFECT THEIR WORK.

    Expenses $427,434

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.

  • Stephanie Nichols-Young

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dj Schubert

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Michael

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elizabeth Maupin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $385,990
    Expenses
    $446,643
    Contributions
    $359,109
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,509,090
    Expenses
    $504,864
    Contributions
    $1,496,565
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $498,218
    Expenses
    $521,315
    Contributions
    $490,847
    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
    $497,296
    Expenses
    $459,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,254

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $416,502
    Expenses
    $402,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,616

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $398,942
    Expenses
    $422,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,798

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,985
    Expenses
    $439,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $119,705

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $496,836
    Expenses
    $501,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,639

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,771
    Expenses
    $550,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,963

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $725,787
    Expenses
    $514,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,366

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $418,746
    Expenses
    $608,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,211

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $608,731
    Expenses
    $487,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,851

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $466,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,275

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.