California · Nonprofit
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,710,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,866,428). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Animal Charity Evaluators does
Mission
Our mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. To do this, we conduct annual charity evaluations and recommend the most effective animal charities. We also provide grants to build and strengthen animal advocacy movement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meta fundraising: by guiding donors and securing contributions, ace helps channel resources toward the most effective animal advocacy efforts. We shared the achievements made by our recommended charities and movement grants recipients via sociacl media, emial, and in presentations. We encouraged people who want to help animals to donate to our recommended charity fund and movement grants. In total, we raised $2,746,559 for our recommended charity fund, $1,437,485 for movement grants, and $910,908 for individual recommended charities. This included running two successful maching campagins, unlocking $600,000 in funds from a legacy donor.
$4,975,169 spentof which $4,624,785 as grants$5,095,753 earned by the program87% of program spendingCharity evaluations: we reviewed hundreds of charities and completed 10 comprehensive charity evaluations to methodically provide a total of five new charity recommendations that are doing highly impactful work and are excellent donation opportunities. This brought our total list of recommended charities to eleven. We published reports containing information about our methodology for evaluations, and we awarded participation grants to the evaluated charities.
$489,026 spentof which $24,000 as grants$905 earned by the program9% of program spendingMovement grants: in fy 2024-25 ace's movement grants program received 324 grant applications. Following a rigorous review process, we awared grants to 30 applicants totaling $1,024,530.
$258,217 spent$193,000 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,722,412.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $5.5M (+50%).
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.
99% of ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Ravi Mulani
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $725k → $4.2M.
22 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 CHARITY EVALUATORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 CHARITY EVALUATORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
87% 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 CHARITY EVALUATORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 44% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 43% · 2023 23% — 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
68% of ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
69% of ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS'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 $7.0M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 CHARITY EVALUATORS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS: 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 CHARITY EVALUATORS?
- ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,710,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,866,428). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $22,710,540 in grants to ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,866,428 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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