California · Nonprofit
BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY
BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,645 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($74,996). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary does
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to provide rescue services, medical care, and permanent sanctuary to animals rescued from abuse, neglect, abandonment, and the slaughter pipeline and to offer public education and advocacy on their behalf. We offer a home to animals not accepted at traditional animal shelters and make sure their needs are met for the remainder of their natural lives including nutritious food, safe shelters, warm bedding, enrichment, socialization, and a peaceful habitat. We educate humans about the impacts of a plant-based diet to help not only the animals, but to reduce climate change, increase food security among vulnerable populations, increase biodiversity, and improve human health. We offer leadership programs for teenagers, volunteer programs for individuals with disabilities, and of course, the chance for humans and non humans to connect in a healing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education and Community Involvement: The education program services we offer are instrumental in solving the larger problem that our first program (animal rescue and care) addresses. Having both the animal care and education programs in in tandem is more impactful than just one or the other. Our educational program services include the service/volunteerism opportunities for the community, field trips, extracurricular visits for groups and clubs (ex: Girl Scouts), online education offerings, public visitor days, private tours, a special needs adult program, and more.
$6,483 spent9% of program spendingAnimal Rescue and Care: The sanctuary's primary program is to provide services for animals in need including but not limited to: rescue, transportation, medical care, and permanent sanctuary including meeting all of their needs (food, bedding, housing/infrastructure, veterinary care, enrichment, behavioral and physical challenges, medication, safety and daily care) for the entire duration of their natural lives. This makes up the bulk of our program expenses as it includes everything related to the care of our permanent animal residents as well as foster care and placement referral services for animals in need.
$60,995 spent87% of program spendingAdvocacy and Outreach: Our advocacy and outreach programs supplement the humane education part of our work. We give free plant-based starter kits to visitors to help them transition to a healthier lifestyle, use social media and literature to advocate for animals, are interviewed on podcasts, online blogs, and digital magazines, and collaborate with veterinarians, other non profits, and other sanctuaries across the US and Canada to break down the barriers of speciesism and promote equitable care for, and treatment of, all animals.
$2,534 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,012.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $19k to $30k (+54%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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. 2 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Danielle Hanosh
Executive Director/Co-Founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $34k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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
BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 77% · 2022 79% · 2023 33% — 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
75% of BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
74% of BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
- BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,645 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($74,996). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $203,645 in grants to BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $74,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing