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Spay Neuter Imperative Project California at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Spay Neuter Imperative Project California

The organization provides communities of california a non-lethal solution to the homeless, abandoned and feral animal populations so that euthanasia is no longer an acceptable means of population control.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$111kCrime & Legal$25kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $48,114, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,239 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,125 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$6,660
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A KEY FOR A CURE FOUNDATION$15,000
ANIMAL FRIENDS RESCUE PROJECT$14,359
PET MATCHMAKER RESCUE$6,660
PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE$6,350
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE$5,745
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL FRIENDS RESCUE PROJECT: $14k → 12%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 3 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$96k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
AnimalsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MC
    MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue -65%
  • PO
    PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue 0%
  • PM
    Pet Matchmaker Rescue CA Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RC
    RANCHO CIELO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • SP
    SALINAS POLICE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION DBA SALINAS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • ON
    Our Neighborhood Pet Project
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
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
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
2
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
3
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
4
California Cleft Pup Rescue

To rescue cleft-affected dogs and cats by implementing and maintaining a foster and adoption program.

Animals
5
Sacramento Police Canine Association

Care for retired police canine dogs.

Animals
6
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
7
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
8
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
9
California Bully Rescue

To reform the dog agenda through intentional rescue, educational resources and support structural change in the community, in order to give each dog a fighting chance.

Animals
10
Northern California Animal Rescue Friends

We work in cooperation with humane organizations shelters and other groups interested in animal rescue. We rescue domestic animals and place them in nurturing foster homes. All animals are evaluated altered and vaccinated prior to…

Animals
11
Amazing Dogs

Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…

Animals
12
Rescue Coop
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Friends Rescue Project; the most unlike its peers is Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock. 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, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $34,250 · AnimalsPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUEOur Neighborhood Pet Project: $9,195 · AnimalsOur Neighborhood Pet ProjectMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC: $39,926 · Crime & LegalMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S …Pet Matchmaker Rescue CA Inc: $21,978 · OtherPet Matchmaker Rescue CA …SALINAS POLICE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION DBA SALINAS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherSALINAS POLICE BENEFIT AS…Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock: $5,745 · OtherBig Dog Rescue Inc co Jam…A KEY FOR A CURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthA KEY FOR…Animal Friends Rescue Project: $14,359 · Human ServicesAnimal Fr…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO CIELO INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Animals$43,445Crime & Legal$39,926Other$37,723Health$15,000Human Services$14,359Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC: $39,926 over 2y, 12% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $34,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALINAS POLICE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION DBA SALINAS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOur Neighborhood Pet Project: $9,195 over 1y, 6.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spay Neuter Imperative Project California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spay Neuter Imperative Project California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Spay Neuter Imperative Project California?

    Find your warmest path to Spay Neuter Imperative Project California 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 10 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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