California · Nonprofit
A Pawsitive Approach
A Pawsitive Approach (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,845 to it, the largest being THE AMATURO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $77k
What A Pawsitive Approach does
Mission
Promote responsible pet ownership
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
APA organization provides veterinary care to rescued cats and dogs including vaccines, micro-chips, spay/neuter, surgery, and regular medical and dental check-ups
$0 spentAPA organization incurs day-to-day expenses to care for the rescued cats and dogs, such as food supplies, litter for cats, crates, carriers, collars, leashes, and misc items
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $48k to $77k (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of A Pawsitive Approach’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $628.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A Pawsitive Approach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A Pawsitive Approach leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2020 75% · 2021 65% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
A Pawsitive Approach draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A Pawsitive Approach runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,003 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,003 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like A Pawsitive Approach
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A Pawsitive Approach: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A Pawsitive Approach?
- A Pawsitive Approach (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,845 to it, the largest being THE AMATURO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A Pawsitive Approach have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $8,845 in grants to A Pawsitive Approach, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Pawsitive Approach?
- THE AMATURO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Pawsitive Approach find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing