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COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS

COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,009 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,575,850). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$2.2M
29/62 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Compassion Without Borders does

Mission

Compassion Without Borders provides a brighter future for animals in need on both sides of the border. Our mission is to find the animals that are in the most urgent need of help, yet the least likely to be helped due to geographic, cultural and socioeconomic barriers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. United states: programs include rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of homeless dogs that come from mexico or the central valley of california. We operate one shelter that houses approximately 500 dogs each year. We also have a free low-cost veterinary wellness and spay/neuter program for underserved community members.

    $1,161,993 spent$114,798 earned by the program
    55% of program spending

  2. Mexico: program includes a free clinic that provides free spay/neuter and veterinary services to over 5,800 animals annually. We also have three shelters that provide care to homeless dogs and cats. Animals are transported for adoption or adopted out locally.

    $958,234 spentof which $459,787 as grants
    45% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,120,227.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($644k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 56 ($869k) Expenses 129 ($830k) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 83 ($1.3M) Expenses 148 ($951k) Net assets 131 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 86 ($1.3M) Expenses 177 ($1.1M) Net assets 147 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 118 ($1.8M) Expenses 191 ($1.2M) Net assets 196 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 109 ($1.7M) Expenses 229 ($1.5M) Net assets 210 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 159 ($2.5M) Expenses 290 ($1.9M) Net assets 253 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 129 ($2.0M) Expenses 448 ($2.9M) Net assets 193 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 166 ($2.6M) Expenses 404 ($2.6M) Net assets 176 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (404)Net assets (176)Peer revenue range

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 $3.3M to $2.5M (−23%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$3.3M
$2.5M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$916k
’17
$39k
’18
$351k
’19
$204k
’20
$614k
’21
$222k
’22
$613k
’23
−$869k
’24
−$19k
’25
1.9
months of
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

Dr Christi Camblor

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed778876678
Joined·+0+2+0+0+2+0+1+1
No longer listed·01013000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $207k → $602k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
Petsmart Charities Incunclassified
$315k
Petco Lovenew
$13k
funders
9
8
10
20
17
25
22
22
15
1

22 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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

COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

88% 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 COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS.

35%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 39% — 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.

How long its funders stay

34% of COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS'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 $925k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside California, across 14 states.

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS

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

Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals81%Companion Animal Protection Society81%Pet Orphans of Southern California80%Community Animal Medicine Project Inc80%Animal Balance80%Rancho Coastal Humane Society80%Santa Maria Valley Humane Society80%Central California SPCA Fresno County Humane Society79%

Nationally

Concerned Citizens for Animals81%Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals81%Companion Animal Protection Society81%Compassion Animal Rescue80%Pet Orphans of Southern California80%Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc80%Community Animal Medicine Project Inc80%Animal Balance80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Compasion Sin Fronteras · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS?
COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,009 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,575,850). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $4,551,009 in grants to COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,575,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS 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 62 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