How much did Starfish Animal Rescue grant in FY2024?

Starfish Animal Rescue reported 23 grants totaling $302,489 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Starfish Animal Rescue based?

Starfish Animal Rescue is based in CA.

Starfish Animal Rescue

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

Starfish Animal Rescue

To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes.

$302k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$30k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $63k
$10k–50k12 grants · $203k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$25k

Total assets

Largest grants

Take Me Home Rescue$29,920
The Real Bark$23,470
Find My Dog A Home$20,000
Harbin Shs Animal Rescue Corp$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
Stray Gerakas$7,075

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals

Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals

No Stray Left Behind

dog rescue

Animals

Homeless Animal Rescue Team

Rescue, care and adoption of homeless animals Daily rescue and care activities

Animals

Bridge to Forever Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals

Scroungy Dogs and Pretty Pups Rescue Inc

We rescue dogs and cats from high kill and high volume shelters, transport them to Colorado, house them in foster homes while we provide all required veterinary services, including spay/neuters, vaccines, dentals, any necessary surgeries,…

Animals

Bacan dog rescue

Dog Rescue and adoptions

Animals

A Forever Home Animal Rescue Inc

We rescue abandoned, injured, abused dogs from high kill shelters, strays and owner surrenders. They are given medical treatments, socialized and made ready for adoption to their forever home. We have rescued thousands in the 12 years…

Animals

Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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Operation Save a Shelter Dog

Dog Rescue

Animals

Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals

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 14. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,956

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.

03the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/16

Grantees still filing

13/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$188,890Other$69,075Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$3,000

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.

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.

Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg AnimalCA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal · 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 organisation 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.

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1get no government money at all

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Dawg Squad.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 352353214 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Dawg Squad, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Starfish Animal Rescue?

Find your warmest path to Starfish Animal Rescue through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Starfish Animal Rescue

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Starfish Animal Rescue?

More from the funding graph

Starfish Animal Rescue

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Starfish Animal Rescue?

More from the funding graph