California · Nonprofit
CROSSING GUARDIANS
CROSSING GUARDIANS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,053 to it, the largest being HOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Crossing Guardians does
Mission
Crossing Guardians is a nonprofit animal rescue and charitable organization. The purpose of our organization is to save and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and homeless animals suffering and struggling to survive along the California-Mexico border. By striving to remain consistent with our mission, Crossing Guardians provides rescuing, providing vet care, transporting, fostering, and placing homeless animals who roam aimlessly along the United States-Mexico border areas ("border strays"), with an emphasis on the greater Tijuana area. The plight of border strays - abuse, neglect, homelessness, starvation, injury, illness and disease, loneliness and despair - does not exist in a vacuum. It is brought about by the underlying impoverished conditions and culture of the community. It is a viciously cruel cycle. Reducing pet over-population is a major step in improving the health and welfare of animals in this region. As such Crossing Guardians encourages adopting rescued animals and
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through donations received, Crossing Guardians most accomplished service was providing much needed, life-altering, veterinarian care to severely abused, neglected and homeless animals suffering, This also includes spaying and neutering these homeless animals once they are well enough. The end goal is to get them fully vetted, crossed over to the United States, and placed in homes. We were able to help approximately 200 abused, neglected and homeless animals.
$36,464 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $22k to $48k (+120%).
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.
0% of CROSSING GUARDIANS’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Naida Austin
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $38 → $19k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CROSSING GUARDIANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
CROSSING GUARDIANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 63% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of CROSSING GUARDIANS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CROSSING GUARDIANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CROSSING GUARDIANS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CROSSING GUARDIANS: 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 CROSSING GUARDIANS?
- CROSSING GUARDIANS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,053 to it, the largest being HOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CROSSING GUARDIANS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $66,053 in grants to CROSSING GUARDIANS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROSSING GUARDIANS?
- HOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 CROSSING GUARDIANS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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