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Pet Care Foundation

The organization is dedicated to the advocacy of shelter animals in los angeles city and los angeles county.

$345k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $320,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $345,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KITTEN RESCUE$35,000
FIXNATION$30,000
LANCE FOUNDATION$25,000
SHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES$25,000
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE$25,000
BETTER TOGETHER FOREVER$23,000
HEAVEN ON EARTH$15,000
WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHARD RESCUE$14,000
COMMUNITY MEDICAL MEDICINE PROJECT$12,500
LOS ANGELES ANIMAL SERVICES$10,000
AMANDA FOUNDATION$10,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
WAGS & WALKS$10,000
ANIMALS IN NEED RESCUE NETWORK$10,000
KITTY BUNGALOW$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LANCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
2
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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3
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
4
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
5
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
6
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
7
K911

To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home

Animals
8
Carson Cats Rescue

Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.

Animals
9
Raskels Rescue
Animals
10
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
11
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
12
Soulas Way Animal Rescue

To rescue animals, with last chances at local, Southern California animal shelters. Once rescued, we rehabilitate the animals to make for a smoother transition to their forever homes. We strive to connect the animals we rescue with the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kitten Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Rescues Rock Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
3/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KITTEN RESCUE — $35,000 · AnimalsKITTEN RESCUEFixNation Inc — $30,000 · AnimalsFixNation IncSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $25,000 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT ALLIANCEBETTERTOGETHER FOREVER — $23,000 · AnimalsBETTERTOGETHER FOREVERHeaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc — $15,000 · AnimalsHeaven on Earth Society for Animals IncCOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC — $12,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INCPASADENA HUMANE — $10,000 · AnimalsAnimals In Need Rescue Network Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsWags and Walks — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsSAINT MARTINS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 · AnimalsKITT CRUSADERS INC — $7,500 · AnimalsDowntown Dog Rescue — $7,500 · AnimalsGRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY — $7,500 · Animals+1 more — $7,000 · AnimalsLANGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDA…DAISY SENIOR DOG FOUNDATION — $9,500 · Human ServicesDAISY SENIOR…WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHARD RESCUE — $14,000 · OtherWESTSIDE GE…CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF LOS…RESCUES ROCK INC — $7,500 · OtherRESCUES ROC…SHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC D/B/A SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterKITTY BUNGALOW CHARM SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD CATS — $10,000 · Education
Animals$219,000Human Services$34,500Other$31,500Housing & Shelter$25,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKITTEN RESCUE — $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFixNation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC D/B/A SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP — $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBETTERTOGETHER FOREVER — $23,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHeaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITTY BUNGALOW CHARM SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD CATS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAnimals In Need Rescue Network Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWags and Walks — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAISY SENIOR DOG FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSAINT MARTINS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKITT CRUSADERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDowntown Dog Rescue — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY — $7,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE RESCUE TRAIN — $7,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Michelson Found A…Best Friends Animal S…Mary Jo and Hank Gree…Greater Good CharitiesThe Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationThe Diane Warren Foun…Community Outreach Pr…Thornton S Jr and Kat…The American Society …Petco LoveCalifornia Community …
The Michelson Found Animals Foundation IncCA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Greater Good Charities · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Diane Warren Foundation · Community Outreach Promoting Emergency Preparedness · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · California Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pet Care Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pet Care Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pet Care Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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