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DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA

DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,347 to it, the largest being Advisors Charitable Gift Fund ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$169k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$249k
Net assets
$87k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Desert Cat Rescue & Sanctuary of Arizona - Dcrsa does

Mission

Desert cat rescue & sanctuary of arizona is dedicated to improving the lives of cats through rescue, rehabilitation, foster care, and adoption. The organization provides lifesaving care for homeless, abandoned, neglected, and at-risk cats while promoting responsibel pet ownership

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During 2025, the organization rescued and admitted 316 cats and placed 273 cats in loving homes. We reduce cat overpopulation, improve animal welfare, and promote responsible pet ownership while providing lifesaving services to cats that might otherwise have no oppurtinity for care or adoption.

    $218,396 spentof which $34,500 as grants$169,314 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,396.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2019 Revenue 174 ($43k) Expenses 215 ($47k) Net assets 376 ($11k)2020 Revenue 327 ($81k) Expenses 325 ($71k) Net assets 712 ($22k)2021 Revenue 744 ($185k) Expenses 715 ($156k) Net assets 1663 ($50k)2022 Revenue 790 ($196k) Expenses 973 ($212k) Net assets 1145 ($35k)2023 Revenue 918 ($228k) Expenses 1054 ($230k) Net assets 1085 ($33k)2025 Revenue 682 ($169k) Expenses 1001 ($218k) Net assets 2873 ($87k)
2018201920202021202220232025
Revenue (682)Expenses (1001)Net assets (2873)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 2020 to 2021, from $22k to $57k (+164%).

$3k
$11k
$22k
$57k
$43k
$40k
$87k
2018201920202021202220232025
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’18
−$3k
’19
$10k
’20
$29k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$49k
’25
1.0
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

Cheryl Christensen

Executive director

Board chair

Doris Kempton

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232025
Listed3344444
Joined·+2+1+0+0+0·
No longer listed·20000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $29k.

6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA’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

DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA.

32%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 66% · 2020 62% · 2021 51% · 2022 26% · 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.

Where its funders are

92% of DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

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

’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

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Questions and answers

Who funds DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA?
DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,347 to it, the largest being Advisors Charitable Gift Fund ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $249,347 in grants to DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA?
Advisors Charitable Gift Fund is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), 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