Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS
COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,578 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($336,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $461k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $201k
What Compassionate Action for Animals does
Mission
Compassionate Action for Animals encourages minnesotans to embrace their empathy for animals and move towards a plant-based diet. Caa envisions a world where all animals, human and non-human can thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1) twin cities veg fest drew over 5,000 people to explore plant-based living; 2) we educated over 1,900 youth about the animal, environmental, and health benefits of plant-based living in school and community settings; 3) 280 volunteers gave over 6,000 hours of time to support others in taking action for farmed animals and moving towards a compassionate diet 4) staff and volunteers conducted over 100 outreach events, including the twin cities vegan chef challenge, vegan cooking classes, movies, speakers, and educational outreach and 5) we invited over 700,000 minnesotans to take pro-animal action through our social media channels
$362,488 spent$63,285 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,488.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $113k to $194k (+71%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $27k → $281k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS’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
COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 94% · 2019 74% · 2020 91% · 2021 83% · 2022 53% · 2023 41% — 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
63% of COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $455k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS is better cushioned than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS: 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 COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS?
- COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,578 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($336,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,057,578 in grants to COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $336,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17 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