People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

International grassroots campaigns: peta is achieving historic progress toward ending animal testing driving systemic reforms, major policy changes, and industry wide shifts toward state-of-the-art, humane science.in a major turning point, the national institutes of health announced plans to redirect funding away from outdated experiments on animals and toward non-animal research methods just as peta recommends in our landmark research modernization now roadmap. Among the changes, nih canceled two longstanding grants to harvard experimenter margaret livingstone, who tore baby monkeys from their mothers and sewed their eyelids shut. More than 700,000 messages and calls from peta supporters helped make this victory possible.after years of persuasion, evidence sharing, and meetings with peta scientists, the food and drug administration (fda) has invited the entire pharmaceutical industry to bring forward their animal replacement approaches for drug testing, starting with monoclonal antibodies. Testing antibody drugs uses dogs, monkeys, or other animals, and a single test can kill more than 100 monkeys.peta's intense advocacy closed the university of Massachusetts amherst laboratory of experimenter agnes lacreuse, ending over a decade of cruel tests on at least 70 marmosets, and halted a gruesome radiation experiment on monkeys at the university of Washington.after hearing from nearly 115,000 peta supporters, aelf flight service's maleth aero airlines stopped transporting monkeys to laboratories.peta stood with residents of bainbridge, Georgia, in successfully blocking construction of a massive facility that would have confined over 30,000 monkeys twice the town's population and produced more than 400,000 gallons of wastewater daily. After uncovering secretive plans for the facility, peta kept the pressure on, sending 2,000 letters to alert residents, running eye-catching billboards, and speaking up for animals at city council meetings.intense pressure from committed peta supporters helped prompt Oregon legislators to require the Oregon national primate research center to submit a closure plan by 2026 if it uses state funds or loses 25% of nih funding, a historic first.we filed a groundbreaking first amendment lawsuit defending our right to receive communications from primates imprisoned in laboratories, something no lawsuit has ever done before.we debuted how the other half lives, a striking 7.5 foot tall binocular installation contrasting the freedom of macaques living in their lush forest homes with those condemned to laboratories, which was seen by tens of thousands of people from seattle's space needle to the department of health and human services in Washington, d.c., across the U.S.in a seismic win for animals and science, the u.s. Centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) announced it will phase out cruel experiments on monkeys a long-overdue move peta worked for relentlessly including in august 2025, when we held a press conference outside of the department of health and human services and released a detailed report revealing the dangers of the monkey importation pipeline.200 companies were added to peta's ultimate cruelty-free list in 2025, bringing the total of companies that have pledged not to fund or conduct tests on animals since our essential list began in 1987 to 6,300.the national coffee association, eurofins, jones dairy farm, and kerry group restricted funding of the university of Wisconsin madison food research institute away from animal testing, joining a dozen other corporate sponsors that have done the same or pulled funds entirely after hearing from peta including coca-cola and pepsi. The institute then created a new fund that allows corporate sponsors to support animal-free research.following discussions with peta, the european respiratory society made up of more than 35,000 clinicians, scientists, and healthcare professionals from more than 160 countries committed to ending its use of live animals

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 62.4%; rating input score 62
• Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
• Fundraising efficiency: $9.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Limited
  • Conducts field audits: Limited
  • May suspend future funding: Limited
  • Requires financial reports: Limited
  • Conducts site visits: Limited
  • Requires grant agreements: Limited
  • May require repayment: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 97.8%; rating input score 98; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 27.5%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings