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DESERVING PAWS

DESERVING PAWS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,450 to it, the largest being BANDAI NAMCO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA FKA THE BANDAI FOUNDATION ($1,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$13k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Deserving Paws does

Mission

We aim to help every dog life happily lives

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Rescue dogs

    $49,239 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,239.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Christopher Kark

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of DESERVING PAWS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DESERVING PAWS's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

DESERVING PAWS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,489 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,489 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESERVING PAWS: 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 DESERVING PAWS?
DESERVING PAWS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,450 to it, the largest being BANDAI NAMCO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA FKA THE BANDAI FOUNDATION ($1,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DESERVING PAWS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,450 in grants to DESERVING PAWS.
Who is the largest funder of DESERVING PAWS?
BANDAI NAMCO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA FKA THE BANDAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESERVING PAWS 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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