California · Nonprofit
ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA
ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,632,760 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($14,648,938). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $86k
What Animal Charities of America does
Mission
Animal Charities of America raises funds and awareness to improve the lives of animals by aiding our partner charities and encouraging supporters to contribute to their cause.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Aca connects donors to quality animal charities. Provides personalized telephone, print, web-based education and information services for contributors to use in gift-making decisions; trains charities on how to attract and serve contributors; provides logistical support to fund drive organizers; provides necessary management and fiscal services.
$281,905 spent69% of program spendingAca screens and certifies charities that meet standards for inclusion in the combined federal campaign, public sector, and corporate workplace charitable fund drives. Acting as the central representative and fiscal agent in those drives, aca increases cost-effectiveness and efficiency. Also provides other direct donation opportunities. Expenses reflect distributions to our partner charities.
$127,804 spentof which $127,804 as grants31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $409,709.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.0M to $2.4M (−41%).
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 ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 27 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.9M → $1.5M.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 CHARITIES OF AMERICA’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 CHARITIES OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHARITIES OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 65% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
4% of ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
87% of ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside California, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CHARITIES OF AMERICA's revenue fell 93% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 128 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA: 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 CHARITIES OF AMERICA?
- ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,632,760 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($14,648,938). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $18,632,760 in grants to ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,648,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 29 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