North Carolina · Nonprofit
CAROLINA CAT RESCUE
CAROLINA CAT RESCUE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,599 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $9k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $-6390
What Carolina Cat Rescue does
Mission
Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there. Often, the cats find wonderful homes very quickly as some of the states do not have a cat overpopulation, as we do in NC. CCR medically prepares the cat for travel and insures the cat meets the importing state requirements. We arrange travel for the cat/kitten by car, bus, and private planes. We depend on donations to fund the medical care to prepare the cats. We do not receive government or state funding. All members of Carolina Cat Rescue are non-paid volunteers.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Cat Foster Program for 206 cats/kittens. We provided cat food, litter, medication, veterinary care expenses, spay/neuter surgeries, supplies (including litter boxes, enrichment toys), vaccines, microchips, and emergency medical care for cats and kittens.
$25,065 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,065.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $9k to $0 (−100%).
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 CAROLINA CAT RESCUE’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. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Karena Kilgore
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $144.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CAROLINA CAT RESCUE’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
CAROLINA CAT RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CAROLINA CAT RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
CAROLINA CAT RESCUE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $499 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CAROLINA CAT RESCUE's revenue fell 78% between 2020 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,669 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like CAROLINA CAT RESCUE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAROLINA CAT RESCUE: 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 CAROLINA CAT RESCUE?
- CAROLINA CAT RESCUE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,599 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAROLINA CAT RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,599 in grants to CAROLINA CAT RESCUE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAROLINA CAT RESCUE?
- BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAROLINA CAT RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 3 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