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Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane

Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,478,732 to it, the largest being The Duffield Family Foundation DBA Maddie's Fund ($1,625,147). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$7.4M
Revenue FY2025
64
Funders on record
$5.5M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
36/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 606 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 606 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 174 ($3.4M) Expenses 105 ($2.4M) Net assets 130 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 133 ($2.6M) Expenses 109 ($2.5M) Net assets 135 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 138 ($2.7M) Expenses 102 ($2.3M) Net assets 148 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 238 ($4.7M) Expenses 126 ($2.8M) Net assets 202 ($7.0M)2022 Revenue 249 ($4.9M) Expenses 157 ($3.5M) Net assets 233 ($8.0M)2023 Revenue 198 ($3.9M) Expenses 166 ($3.7M) Net assets 246 ($8.5M)2024 Revenue 261 ($5.2M) Expenses 181 ($4.1M) Net assets 282 ($9.7M)2025 Revenue 371 ($7.4M) Expenses 194 ($4.4M) Net assets 369 ($13M)
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Revenue (371)Expenses (194)Net assets (369)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$273k
17
$1.1M
18
$181k
19
$427k
20
$1.9M
21
$1.4M
22
$185k
23
$1.1M
24
$3.0M
25
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $119k → $620k.

15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)56% 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 Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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

Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane.

30%
largest funder
68%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 32% · 2019 76% · 2020 53% · 2021 47% · 2022 49% · 2023 32%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

43% of Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

56% of Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from California funders.

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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. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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 64 funders put you typical 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 Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane

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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 6%Fundraising 10%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

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 Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: 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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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 Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane?
Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,478,732 to it, the largest being The Duffield Family Foundation DBA Maddie's Fund ($1,625,147). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane have?
IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $5,478,732 in grants to Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane?
The Duffield Family Foundation DBA Maddie's Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,625,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane 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 64funders 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