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FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE

FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,005 to it, the largest being THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION ($27,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$559k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
$557k
6/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Foster Army Animal Rescue does

Mission

To rescue vulnerable at-risk companion animals from animal control facilities and to place them in caring foster homes until they can be placed in forever homes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Pet adoption and foster care services

    $116,008 spent$5,025 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  2. Operate a thrift store which sells donated goods to support the adoption and foster care services.

    $315,640 spent$363,330 earned by the program
    73% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,648.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($156k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2018 Revenue 153 ($259k) Expenses 129 ($201k) Net assets 291 ($88k)2019 Revenue 196 ($331k) Expenses 218 ($340k) Net assets 263 ($80k)2020 Revenue 165 ($279k) Expenses 170 ($264k) Net assets 323 ($98k)2021 Revenue 240 ($406k) Expenses 189 ($294k) Net assets 691 ($210k)2022 Revenue 239 ($404k) Expenses 241 ($375k) Net assets 781 ($237k)2023 Revenue 337 ($570k) Expenses 274 ($426k) Net assets 1253 ($380k)2024 Revenue 290 ($490k) Expenses 259 ($402k) Net assets 1541 ($468k)2025 Revenue 331 ($559k) Expenses 303 ($471k) Net assets 1833 ($557k)
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Revenue (331)Expenses (303)Net assets (1833)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 2022 to 2023, from $251k to $399k (+59%).

$33k
$95k
$91k
$129k
$216k
$251k
$399k
$496k
$566k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$58k
’18
−$8k
’19
$15k
’20
$112k
’21
$29k
’22
$143k
’23
$88k
’24
$89k
’25
14
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

Robin Lissner

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed57766557
Joined·+4+0+0+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·2012100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $21k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE’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

FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 41% · 2021 52% · 2022 56% · 2023 58% — 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

33% of FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

56% of FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE's grant income comes from California funders.

MN
CA
MD
TN
NC
FL

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

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve14.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

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

Organizations like FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE?
FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,005 to it, the largest being THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION ($27,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $143,005 in grants to FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE?
THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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