California · Nonprofit
CARE4Paws Inc
CARE4Paws Inc (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,756,412 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($550,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $877k
What CARE4Paws Inc does
Mission
C.A.R.E.4Paws' mission is to reduce pet overpopulation, keep animals out of shelters and improve quality of life for pet families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since its founding in 2009, C.A.R.E.4Paws short for Community Awareness, Resources & Education has worked to reduce pet overpopulation and improve pet family welfare on California's Central Coast. The organization serves low-income, senior, disabled and unhoused pet families throughout Santa Barbara County and, since 2022, San Luis Obispo County. In 2025, C.A.R.E.4Paws assisted more than 25,000 pets and their families with free and low-cost veterinary care, pet food distribution, emergency medical assistance and other support services.CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE OC.A.R.E.4Paws' Mobile Community Medicine & Spay/Neuter Outreach Program represents approximately 80% of total operational expenditures and remains the organization's largest program. Operating from two mobile veterinary units that travel throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, the program brings affordable veterinary care directly to underserved communities, helping families overcome financial, transportation, geographic and other barriers to care.In 2025, the mobile clinic program assisted more than 16,300 pets through free and low-cost vaccines, wellness services, medical treatment and spay/neuter surgeries.…
$2,187,805 spent$609,103 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,187,805.
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 2023 to 2024, from $852k to $1.1M (+30%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of CARE4Paws Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Isabelle Gullo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $144k → $688k.
10 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CARE4Paws Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
CARE4Paws Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
41% 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 CARE4Paws Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 25% · 2019 31% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
55% of CARE4Paws Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
54% of CARE4Paws Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $735k 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
CARE4Paws Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARE4Paws Inc
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CARE4Paws Inc: 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 CARE4Paws Inc?
- CARE4Paws Inc (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,756,412 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($550,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARE4Paws Inc have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $3,756,412 in grants to CARE4Paws Inc, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARE4Paws Inc?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARE4Paws Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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