· Public charity
Starfish Animal Rescue
To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $265,965 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $302,489 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,524 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 $10k11 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Take Me Home Rescue | $29,920 |
| The Real Bark | $23,470 |
| Harbin Shs Animal Rescue Corp | $20,000 |
| Find My Dog A Home | $20,000 |
| Dawg Squad | $19,970 |
| Ghetto rescue | $19,930 |
| Born Again Pitbull Rescue | $15,000 |
| Old Souls Rescue | $15,000 |
| MidCity Cats LA | $10,000 |
| Heaven On Earth | $10,000 |
| Cameron Dog Foundation | $10,000 |
| Angels For Animals | $10,000 |
| Stray Paws Animal Haven | $8,000 |
| The SATO Project | $7,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,075 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
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.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Dog 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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Dog Rescue and adoptions
Saving dogs
Animal Welfare
Dog rescue
Rescue dogs that are at risk in high kill shelters and ready them for adoption in forever homes
The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Take Me Home and the most unlike its peers is Compassion in World Farming Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 TAKE ME HOME ↗
- Who funds THE REAL BARK THE RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HARBIN SHS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FIND MY DOG A HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dawg Squad ↗
- Who funds Ghetto Rescue FFoundation ↗
- Who funds OLD SOULS ANIMAL RESCUE AND RETIREMENT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE SATO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kauai SPCA ↗
- Who funds Compassion in World Farming Inc ↗
- Who funds BULL TERRIER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COCKER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AT-CHOO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Starfish Animal Rescue 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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