Skip to content
Plinth
FundingAlso makes grants — grantmaker profile →

California · Nonprofit

FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES

FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,188,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($397,471). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
41
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$942k
Net assets
19/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 606 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 606 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($873k)2018 Revenue 185 ($480k) Expenses 192 ($463k) Net assets 102 ($890k)2019 Revenue 208 ($538k) Expenses 163 ($393k) Net assets 119 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 274 ($710k) Expenses 244 ($588k) Net assets 133 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 221 ($571k) Expenses 432 ($1.0M) Net assets 79 ($690k)2022 Revenue 568 ($1.5M) Expenses 474 ($1.1M) Net assets 115 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 469 ($1.2M) Expenses 723 ($1.7M) Net assets 55 ($481k)2024 Revenue 711 ($1.8M) Expenses 612 ($1.5M) Net assets 97 ($846k)2025 Revenue 788 ($2.0M) Expenses 819 ($2.0M) Net assets 108 ($942k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (788)Expenses (819)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
17
$17k
18
$145k
19
$123k
20
$471k
21
$326k
22
$532k
23
$364k
24
$63k
25
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $29k → $372k.

14 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)67% 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 FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

72% 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 FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES.

18%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 32% · 2019 44% · 2020 46% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 57%growing more concentrated.

“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 FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

67% of FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES'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 $720k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.

WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
CT
CA
UT
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 41 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES?
FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,188,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($397,471). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,188,844 in grants to FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $397,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 41funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing