California · Nonprofit
FAUNALYTICS
FAUNALYTICS (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,002,613 to it, the largest being ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ($1,170,612). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Faunalytics does
Mission
Empower animal advocates with research, insights, and strategies that maximize their effectiveness to end animal suffering.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independent research: we conduct original studies to address critical knowledge gaps in the animal protection movement. In 2025, topics included the impacts of food system education, gen z's attitude to animals and the environment, the economic impacts of a plant-based transition, effective communication with political staffers, messaging about plant-based diets in southeast asia, collaboration with farmed animal advocates in southeast asia, equity and inclusion in the animal advocacy movement, animal product reduction interventions, u.s. Voter response to candidates' animal policy proposals, public perceptions of standard animal agriculture practices, and the spread of industrial animal agriculture in low and middle-income countries. In 2025, Faunalytics original research studies received over 79,000 pageviews.
$484,330 spent59% of program spendingResearch library: our research library is the world's largest collection of animal advocacy research. In 2025, Faunalytics published 256 new research study summaries, and 56 blog posts that synthesized research on important animal-related topics, including a continuation of our "tactics in practice (tips)" blog series. We also created a new infographic on aquaculture and a fact sheet on ethical animal companion food. We send weekly and monthly research alerts to thousands of scholars and animal advocates throughout the year, with 12,400 subscribers in 2025.
$219,093 spent27% of program spendingResearch support: Faunalytics directly supports animal protection nonprofits by helping them apply data to their work. In 2025 we provided pro bono support to 90 advocates and organizations, helping them find data, design surveys, and analyze research. We supported a movement-wide initiative to track cultural change related to farmed animals in the united states. We delivered customized research presentations to 4 organizations via our ambassador outreach project. We hosted fauna connections, a research symposium that connects academics and advocates working on animal issues, with over 450 advocates in attendance from around the world.
$116,171 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $819,594.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.4M (+41%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Brooke Haggerty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $90k → $918k.
17 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FAUNALYTICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
FAUNALYTICS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
81% 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 FAUNALYTICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 80% · 2019 32% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 48% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of FAUNALYTICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
64% of FAUNALYTICS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like FAUNALYTICS
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.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 FAUNALYTICS: 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 FAUNALYTICS?
- FAUNALYTICS (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,002,613 to it, the largest being ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ($1,170,612). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAUNALYTICS have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,002,613 in grants to FAUNALYTICS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAUNALYTICS?
- ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,612 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAUNALYTICS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 53 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