California · Nonprofit
Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA
Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $788 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($788). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
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.
- Women Giving as One Inclocal
- Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Incportfolio match
- New Kingston Animal Sanctuaryportfolio match
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.
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 Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $390 → $398.
From the IRS filings of Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA’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.
Where its funders are
Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- Women Giving as One InclocalCA · funds 45 organizations near you
- Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Kingston Animal Sanctuaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Humane Leagueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Patricia Florence Miller Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexander McCausland Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datloportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Art for Animals Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sonoma County Vintners FoundationlocalCA · funds 97 organizations near you
- The Ark Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stand Up for Pits Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lady Freethinkerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA?
- Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $788 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($788). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $788 in grants to Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA?
- AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru SPCA 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1funders 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