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Foundation for Animal Care & Education

The FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION was formed to enhance and preserve the quality of life of companion animals by providing access to necessary medical care and education.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Itemized grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
52%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$21,061
Largest grant, FY2024
$288,056
Organizations funded a year
14 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Foundation for Animal Care & Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $581k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$1.6M28%
FY202333$1.5M52%
FY202220$1.1M5%
FY202121$816k14%
FY202017$728k29%
FY201918$693k33%
FY201815$624k40%
FY201714$661kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$5.8MHealth$330kReligion$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$79kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Veterinary Specialty Hospital$2,117,0427n/a
Vca Animal Medical Center Of$916,0326n/a
Pet Emergency & Special$429,6428n/a
California Veterinary Special$358,1235n/a
B Street Clinic Vet$339,6698n/a
Animal Emergency Clinic Sd$213,2706n/a
Mohnacky Animal Hospital$75,3726n/a
Petsurg Er4pets$44,4074n/a
Surfside Animal Hospital$33,7835n/a
High Valley Vetrinary Hospita$30,9124n/a
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All grantees of Foundation for Animal Care & Education by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Veterinary Specialty Hospital$2,117,0427n/a
Vca Animal Medical Center Of$916,0326n/a
Pet Emergency & Special$429,6428n/a
California Veterinary Special$358,1235n/a
B Street Clinic Vet$339,6698n/a
Animal Emergency Clinic Sd$213,2706n/a
Mohnacky Animal Hospital$75,3726n/a
Petsurg Er4pets$44,4074n/a
Surfside Animal Hospital$33,7835n/a
High Valley Vetrinary Hospita$30,9124n/a
Mast Blvd Pet Hospital$28,6453n/a
Shadowridge Vet Hospital$25,1532n/a
Banfield Pet Hospital$24,4003n/a
Care & Comfort Vetrinary Hosp$24,3493n/a
San Diego Pet Hospital$21,4653n/a
San Diego Bay Animal Hospital$20,8612n/a
Bodhi Animal Hospital$18,3852n/a
Plaza Boulevard Pet Hospital$12,5372n/a
Bastet Vetrinary Hospital$8,7981n/a
Oceanside Vetrinary Hospital$7,7441n/a
Pacific Animal Hospital$5,1001n/a

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the HomelessNV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Foundation for Animal Care & Education?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Animal Care & Education through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Foundation for Animal Care & Education

How much does Foundation for Animal Care & Education give?
Foundation for Animal Care & Education reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,575,372, out of $1,627,403 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Foundation for Animal Care & Education fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (76%), Health (4%), Religion (2%).
Who are Foundation for Animal Care & Education's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Veterinary Specialty Hospital ($2.1M), Vca Animal Medical Center Of ($916k), Pet Emergency & Special ($430k).
Does Foundation for Animal Care & Education fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Animal Care & Education?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless.
Where is Foundation for Animal Care & Education based?
Foundation for Animal Care & Education is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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