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Starfish Animal Rescue

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

$302k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $265,965, the rows itemized in this filing. The $302,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,524 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $203k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Angels For Animals$10,000
Cameron Dog Foundation$10,000
Stray Paws Animal Haven$8,000
The SATO Project$7,600
Individual grant recipient$7,075
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Compassion in World Animals: $5k → 17%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 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
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
2
Pets Without Partners

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

Animals
3
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
4
Hope Fur Paws 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.

Animals
5
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
6
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
7
Bacan dog rescue

Dog Rescue and adoptions

Animals
8
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
9
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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10
Saved By Fate Inc

Dog rescue

Animals
11
Take Me Home Dog Rescue

Rescue dogs that are at risk in high kill shelters and ready them for adoption in forever homes

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12
Pets Return Home

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

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Take Me Home; 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.
03the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
5/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAKE ME HOME: $29,920 · AnimalsTAKE ME HOMETHE REAL BARK THE RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL ANIMAL LEAGUE: $23,470 · AnimalsTHE REAL BARK THE RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL ANIMAL LEAGUEHARBIN SHS ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 · AnimalsHARBIN SHS ANIMAL RESCUEFIND MY DOG A HOME FOUNDATION: $20,000 · AnimalsFIND MY DOG A HOME FOUNDATIONDawg Squad: $19,970 · AnimalsDawg SquadGhetto Rescue FFoundation: $19,930 · AnimalsGhetto Rescue FFoundationOLD SOULS ANIMAL RESCUE AND RETIREMENT HOME INC: $15,000 · AnimalsOLD SOULS ANIMAL RESCUE AND RETIREMENT HOME INCBORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE: $15,000 · AnimalsBORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUESTRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN: $8,000 · AnimalsTHE SATO PROJECT: $7,600 · Animals+2 more: $10,000 · AnimalsMIDCITYCATSLA INC: $10,000 · OtherMIDCITYCATSLA INCANGELS FOR ANIMALS: $10,000 · OtherANGELS FOR ANIMALSCameron Dog Foundation: $10,000 · OtherCameron Dog FoundationHeaven On Earth: $10,000 · OtherHeaven On EarthIndividual grant recipient: $7,075 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTAILS OF THE CITY ANIMAL RESCUE: $7,000 · OtherTAILS OF THE CITY ANIMAL RESC…BULL TERRIER RESCUE INC: $5,000 · OtherBULL TERRIER RESCUE INCTAIL WAGGERS INN: $5,000 · OtherTAIL WAGGERS INNLOS FELIZ ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 · OtherLOS FELIZ ANIMAL RESCUECompassion in World Farming Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesAT-CHOO FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$188,890Other$69,075Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAKE ME HOME: $29,920 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE REAL BARK THE RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL ANIMAL LEAGUE: $23,470 over 1y, 12% of budgetHARBIN SHS ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFIND MY DOG A HOME FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDawg Squad: $19,970 over 1y, 30% of budgetGhetto Rescue FFoundation: $19,930 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE: $15,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSTRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT: $7,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBULL TERRIER RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCompassion in World Farming Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP COCKER RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKauai SPCA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAT-CHOO FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Mary Jo and Hank Gree…Sempra FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare FoundationCA13.6× 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 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

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 Starfish Animal Rescue funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starfish Animal Rescue. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get no government money at all
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Starfish Animal Rescue?

    Find your warmest path to Starfish Animal Rescue 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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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