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Animal Friends Rescue Project

Animal Friends Rescue Project (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,833 to it, the largest being THE SHERMAN FOUNDATION ($150,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
33
Funders on record
$700k
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
22/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

Animal Friends Rescue Project's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($982k) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 101 ($993k) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 87 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 178 ($1.7M) Expenses 109 ($1.4M) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 99 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 54 ($530k) Expenses 41 ($531k) Net assets 157 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 122 ($1.2M) Expenses 95 ($1.2M) Net assets 134 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 135 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 129 ($1.3M) Expenses 118 ($1.5M) Net assets 124 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (118)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

46% of Animal Friends Rescue Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$320k
17
$376k
18
$334k
19
$86k
20
$1k
21
$33k
22
$167k
23
$275k
24
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $48k → $62k.

6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% 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 Friends Rescue Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 Friends Rescue Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

56% 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 Friends Rescue Project.

21%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 81% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 27%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

41% of Animal Friends Rescue Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Friends Rescue Project draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
NV
IA
OH
CA
CO
DE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Animal Friends Rescue Project

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 25%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Animal Friends Rescue Project: 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 Friends Rescue Project?
Animal Friends Rescue Project (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,833 to it, the largest being THE SHERMAN FOUNDATION ($150,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Animal Friends Rescue Project have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $699,833 in grants to Animal Friends Rescue Project, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Animal Friends Rescue Project?
THE SHERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Animal Friends Rescue Project 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 33funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing