California · Nonprofit
ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS
ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,709 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $623k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $563k
What Animal Advocacy Careers does
Mission
Animal Advocacy Career's mission is to direct animal advocates to opportunities to achieve the highest impact possible through their careers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization runs a number of programs to solve the talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy space. COMMUNICATIONS - serve to raise awareness of impactful career paths in animal advocacy, while reaching and acquiring new audiences to engage with all of our programs through email marketing, social media, and other channels. CANDIDATE DATABASE - focuses on retaining a list of highly qualified candidates to support animal protection organizations with recruitment needs. CAREERS ADVISING - We offer tailored one-to-one advising sessions to help individuals find their own path to contribute to the animal advocacy movement in an impactful way. GIVING FOR ANIMALS - encourages individuals to pledge a portion of their income to effective animal advocacy organizations. JOB BOARD - We run a specialized job board to connect mission-driven individuals with high-impact roles in the animal advocacy movement, including adjacent roles that help animals. Online Courses - gives individuals an overview of the animal advocacy movement, highlights a variety of possible career paths, and shares effective research and strategies for impactful advocacy. POLICY - The Impactful Policy Careers…
$293,542 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,542.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $200 to $248k (+123922%).
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.
98% of ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lauren Mee
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $143k → $695k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS’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
ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“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
53% of ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $599k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS: 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 ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS?
- ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,709 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,271,709 in grants to ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing