California · Nonprofit
Charlies Acres
Charlies Acres (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,715,578 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,635,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Charlies Acres's revenue fell 81% between 2017 and 2025.
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.
- Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundationshared funders
- DMBradley II Family Foundationportfolio match
- William Dean Fausett Fndtn for the Presv & Protection of Green Mt Boy History Incportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $380k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Charlies Acres’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
Charlies Acres leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Charlies Acres.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 79% — 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
0% of Charlies Acres's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
97% of Charlies Acres'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 $342k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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.
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 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- DMBradley II Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Dean Fausett Fndtn for the Presv & Protection of Green Mt Boy History Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gatter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn J Clark Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ark Watch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenneth G and Diana Moon Adams Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of San Jose FoundationlocalCA · funds 76 organizations near you
- Silicon Valley CreateslocalCA · funds 90 organizations near you
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 Charlies Acres
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Charlies Acres: 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 Charlies Acres?
- Charlies Acres (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,715,578 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,635,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Charlies Acres have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $10,715,578 in grants to Charlies Acres, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charlies Acres?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charlies Acres 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 20funders 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