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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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$147k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SURFCAT RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS: $250 → 10%STRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $100 → 14%SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY: $21k → 14%WRENN RESCUES: $50 → 10%MUTT HUT RESCUE: $5k → 14%SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 14%SPAY AND NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK (SPAN): $20k → 10%SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 14%OJAI VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 10%SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY: $11k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY - VENTURA COUNTY: $1k → 10%ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $3k → 14%ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $750 → 14%SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 → 14%SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 14%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$91k · 3 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$91k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24’25
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

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    5× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +205%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY
    2× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +23%
  • AS
    Animal Shelter Assistance Program
    2× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • C4
    CARE 4 PAWS
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +356%
  • SM
    SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -39%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southern California Siamese Rescue

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…

Animals
2
Southern Counties Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
3
Carson Cats Rescue

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

Animals
4
Friends of Surfside Cats Inc

Stray Animal Care

Animals
5
Cat Crew California

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…

Animals
6
Saving Animals in Need Today

Cat care and cat adoption - intake homeless owner surrendered cats provide them with veterinary care feed and house them until adopted

Animals
7
Animal Humane Assoc of Star Valley

charitable public benefit

Animals
8
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
9
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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10
Tabby Tails Cat Rescue

To rescue cats in need provide them with necessary medical care and adopt them into forever homes.

Animals
11
California Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue and place homeless animals

Animals
12
Pet Los Cabos

Pet Los Cabos procides sterilization for dogs and cats. They provided 3000 spay and neuters in 2024 and rehomed 180 dogs and cats through an adoption program.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Maria Valley Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $72,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSTHE SPAY-NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK SPAN: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE SPAY-NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK SPANHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $16,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTYCARE4Paws Inc: $15,000 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc+5 more: $7,690 · Animals+5 moreCARE 4 PAWS: $8,500 · OtherCARE 4 PAWSMUTT HUT RESCUE: $5,000 · OtherMUTT HUT RES…SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,600 · OtherSANTA MARIA …+1 more: $50 · Other
Animals$130,690Other$16,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $72,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPAY-NEUTER ANIMAL NETWORK SPAN: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSurfcat Cafe and Adoption Center: $250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…Bragg Health Foundati…Bruce Ronald & Phylli…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Santa Barbara Foundat…The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncPaypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Resqcats Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Resqcats Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    1report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Resqcats Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Resqcats Inc 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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