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California · Public charity

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

$472k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$9k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,720
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,720
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$137M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$9k0%
FY20213$60k0%
FY20201$6k0%
FY20193$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$92k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fresno Humane Animal Services$38,10631%
Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County$35,4534n/a
County Of Kings$18,5792n/a

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About The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

How much does The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals give?
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported 1 itemized grants totaling $8,720, out of $472,262 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fresno Humane Animal Services ($38k), Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County ($35k), County Of Kings ($19k).
Does The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals based?
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is based in CA.

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 3 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.4M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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