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FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER

FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,924 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$136k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$193k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter does

Mission

Increasing donation opportunities through fundraising and development of community partnership to assist the city of santa monica in acquiring much needed resources in order to ensure the santa monica animal shelter continues to provide the highest quality of care and services to all santa monica animals

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Facilities expense, vet bills, animal supplies and adoption subsidies provided to city of santa monica animal shelter

    $47,034 spentof which $47,034 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Payment to city of santa monica to provide resources in order to ensure the santa monica animal shelter continues to provide the highest quality of care and services to all santa monica animals

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,034.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2022 Revenue 248 ($33k) Expenses 166 ($15k) Net assets 250 ($29k)2023 Revenue 472 ($62k) Expenses 526 ($48k) Net assets 373 ($44k)2024 Revenue 874 ($115k) Expenses 526 ($48k) Net assets 949 ($111k)2025 Revenue 1037 ($136k) Expenses 596 ($54k) Net assets 1655 ($193k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (1037)Expenses (596)Net assets (1655)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $111k to $193k (+74%).

$12k
$29k
$44k
$111k
$193k
20212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER’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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’21
$17k
’22
$14k
’23
$67k
’24
$82k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Elizabeth Noble

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $124.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER’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

FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin60% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)79% · 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.

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER?
FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,924 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,924 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA ANIMAL SHELTER 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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