· Public charity
Resqcats Inc
Resqcats is a non-profit cat sanctuary located in santa barbara, california, dedicated to the rescue, care and adoptions of stray and abandoned cats and kittens and feline education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPAY AND NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK (SPAN) | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| CARE 4 PAWS | $15,000 |
| MUTT HUT RESCUE | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +130% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +205%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY2× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +23%
- ASAnimal Shelter Assistance Program2× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- C4CARE 4 PAWSone grant, 2023 · $9k
- VFVOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +356%
- SMSANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Southern California Siamese Rescue's mission is to rescue Siamese cats both purebreds and mixes from shelters, streets and owner abandonment. We insure they are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and vetted before finding them permenant placement…
Stray Animal Care
Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.
We rescue, cats and kittens, provide necessary vetting including spay and neutering, vaccines and microchipping and adopt into permanent home. The animals we rescue come from kill shelters and off the street, abandoned animals. We try to…
Cat care and cat adoption - intake homeless owner surrendered cats provide them with veterinary care feed and house them until adopted
We are a group of volunteers who are trying to make an impact on the feral cat and kitten population in our county. We are also expanding to rescue and foster puppies and dogs. We are foster based and run on donations and support of our…
charitable public benefit
Rescue and place homeless animals
Serves the santa ynez valley and surrounding communities by providing housing, care and placement services for dogs and cats available for adoption, low fee spay and neuter services and promoting humane, compassionate and conscientious…
Improve conditions, and provide care for all the cats
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Maria Valley Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Greyfoot Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE SPAY-NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK SPAN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREYFOOT CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Surfcat Cafe and Adoption Center ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Bragg Health Foundation · Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Resqcats Inc 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.
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.
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