California · Nonprofit
Catalyst for Cats Inc
Catalyst for Cats Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,500 to it, the largest being May and Bill Allison Foundation ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Catalyst for Cats Inc's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,983 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Incshared funders
- Paul and Lea Levine Foundationportfolio match
- Joanie C Bernard Foundationportfolio 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.
41% of Catalyst for Cats Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Catalyst for Cats Inc’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
Catalyst for Cats Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 84% · 2019 77% · 2020 63% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Catalyst for Cats 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. 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.
- Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Incshared fundersCA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Paul and Lea Levine Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joanie C Bernard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Spay Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orphan Kitten Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Animal Friend Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The LaRussa Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kathryn G Favre Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cold Noses Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alley Cat Allies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Closehaul Capital Charitable Incportfolio 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 Catalyst for Cats Inc
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.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 Catalyst for Cats 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.
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 Catalyst for Cats Inc?
- Catalyst for Cats Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,500 to it, the largest being May and Bill Allison Foundation ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Catalyst for Cats Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $77,500 in grants to Catalyst for Cats Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Catalyst for Cats Inc?
- May and Bill Allison Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $49,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Catalyst for Cats 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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