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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 FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $1,575,372, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,627,403 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,031 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $477k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $732k
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$21,061
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VET SPECIALTY HOSPITAL-NORTH$288,056
Individual grant recipient$202,869
Individual grant recipient$143,384
B STREET CLINIC VET$130,791
ALL GODS CREATURES TEACHING$115,591
VCA CALIFORNIA VET SPECIALIST$77,893
VET EMERGENCY GROUP-OCEANSIDE$61,921
Individual grant recipient$46,767
VCA EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL$45,604
ALOHA AFFORDABLE VETERINARY S$43,304
PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL$41,735
ANIMAL EMERGENCY CLINIC SD$39,755
Individual grant recipient$32,482
SAN MARCOS VETERINARY CLINIC$28,162
ABC VET HOSPITAL$26,739
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VETERINARY EMERGENCY & REFERR: $78k → 9%VCA CVS - MURRIETA: $143k → 11%VCA CVS - MURRIETA: $143k → 11%VCA EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $150k → 11%B STREET CLINIC VET: $131k → 11%B STREET CLINIC VET: $76k → 11%VCA ANIMAL SPECIALTY GROUP: $99k → 11%CALIFORNIA VETERINARY SPECIAL: $110k → 11%CALIFORNIA VETERINARY SPECIAL: $104k → 11%CALIFORNIA VETERINARY SPECIAL: $86k → 11%VCA CALIFORNIA VET SPECIALIST: $78k → 11%VCA CALIFORNIA VET SPECIALIST: $50k → 11%VET EMERGENCY GROUP-OCEANSIDE: $62k → 11%PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $87k → 11%PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $78k → 11%PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $75k → 11%PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $67k → 11%PET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $50k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $317k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $265k → 11%ALL OTHER RECIPIENTS: $203k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $191k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $132k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $128k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $115k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $115k → 11%ALL OTHER RECIPIENTS: $88k → 11%ALL OTHER RECIPIENTS: $81k → 11%ALL OTHER RECIPIENTS: $60k → 11%VET SPECIALTY HOSPITAL-NORTH: $288k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $197k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $160k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $122k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $113k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $100k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $96k → 11%VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $65k → 11%VETERINARY EMERGENCY GROUP: $67k → 11%VETERINARY EMERGENCY GROUP: $66k → 11%VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $240k → 11%VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $184k → 11%VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $148k → 11%VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $144k → 11%ALL GODS CREATURES TEACHING: $116k → 11%VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $102k → 11%ALL GODS CREATURES TEACHING: $70k → 11%ANIMAL EMERGENCY CLINIC SD: $79k → 11%ANIMAL EMERGENCY CLINIC SD: $53k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 41 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
11

Total granted

$7.2M
$105k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VS
    VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M
  • VA
    VCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF
    6× · 2017–2022 · $916k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $504k

Funded once

  • TT
    TELL TAIL VETERINARY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • CP
    COUNTRY PET HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
  • EE
    EPIC EMERGENCY PET INTENSIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL: $2,117,042 · OtherVETERINARY SPECIALTY HOSPITALVCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF: $916,032 · OtherVCA ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OFIndividual grant recipient: $503,771 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPET EMERGENCY & SPECIAL: $429,642 · OtherPET EMERGENCY & SPECIALCALIFORNIA VETERINARY SPECIAL: $358,123 · OtherB STREET CLINIC VET: $339,669 · OtherVET SPECIALTY HOSPITAL-NORTH: $288,056 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $286,288 · Other+54 more: $2,453,785 · Other+54 more
Other$7,692,408

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

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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