California · Nonprofit
ANIMAL BALANCE
ANIMAL BALANCE (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,835,382 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($482,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $416k
What Animal Balance does
Mission
To collaborate with communities in need to create sustainable and humane animal management programs in order to prevent suffering and ignite social change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, Animal Balance performed 11,705 spay and neuter surgeries in the following states: 286 arizona, 4,728 california, 1,968 new mexico, 1,786 texas, 702 in the galapagos islands and 2,235 in the bahamas. We held 59 clinics in 4 states, 3 countries and created 6 new partnerships.
$1,525,132 spentof which $25,000 as grants$1,553,493 earned by the program100% of program spendingAnimal Balance has expanded our ability and capacity to provide high quality, high volume spay and neuter clinics in the us and internationally to humanely manage the cat and dog populations and prevent the spread of diseases. We continue to teach the mechanics of these programs to our partners, share funding opportunities with them and encourage them to operate their own spay/neuter programs, creating a sustainable model.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,525,132.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $343k to $444k (+29%).
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.
20% of ANIMAL BALANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Emma Clifford
Board member / executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $231k → $234k.
7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BALANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 BALANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 BALANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 58% · 2019 94% · 2020 45% · 2021 77% · 2022 30% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of ANIMAL BALANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ANIMAL BALANCE draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 BALANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ANIMAL BALANCE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 ANIMAL BALANCE: 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 BALANCE?
- ANIMAL BALANCE (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,835,382 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($482,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANIMAL BALANCE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,835,382 in grants to ANIMAL BALANCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL BALANCE?
- BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $482,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL BALANCE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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