California · Nonprofit
GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,157 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($7,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Greener Pastures Farm Sanctuary of San Luis Obispo does
Mission
Rescue farm animals from slaughter, neglect or abuse. Provide food, shelter and care to these rescued animals. Educate children and adults about bonding with animals to curtail bullying and learn compassion for animals and other humans.create opportunities for volunteers to have a sense of worth and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To date approximately eighty five (85) farm animals have been saved from slaughter, being euthanized and from neglect. Greener pastures farm sanctuary has found land and shelter to house them all to properly care for their health and well being. Daily volunteers get hands on experience interacting with the animals and learn how to handle, feed and clean them. Open houses allows the community to gain experience and knowledge of a particular breeds history and the triumphant stories of each rescued animal. Volunteers are mostly retired and get a sense of purpose, exercise and new goals.california polytech institute animal science students get hands on experience feeding animals, preparing food, administering medications, putting animals to bed and closing the coops, sheds and barn.
$78,324 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,324.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18k to $75k (+324%).
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.
100% of GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $325.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO’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
GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
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.
Public support
99%
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 GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO: 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 GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO?
- GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,157 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($7,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,157 in grants to GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $7,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENER PASTURES FARM SANCTUARY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO 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 4 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