California · Nonprofit
GUNTHERS FAMILY
GUNTHERS FAMILY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($51,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $547k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $187k
What Gunthers Family does
Mission
Gunther's family provides assistance to charitable organizations based in the US and abroad for the welfare of animals, marginalized communitites, women, and children. We focus on small organizations who, because of size, stage of formation, lack of resources or location may not effiencently manage donations on their own.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In the third year of operation as a 501c3 entity, Gunther's Family continued assisting Ernesto's Sanctuary (also referred to as Ernesto's House of Cats), an NGO registered in Cremona, Italy, with managing donations for the animal sanctuary and clinic they operate in Syria. Gunther's Family has an OFAC license to allow donors to use PayPal and Wells Fargo bank to give to the Sanctuary. Ernesto's engaged in extensive animal rescue and humanitarian work in their community and beyond. Funds for the sanctuary went to increase service capacity such as equipment, vet supplies, food, and staffing. As in previous years, Gunther's Family received donations earmarked for the Sanctuary and then sent those funds to the Sanctuary's office in Italy to help fund its charitable activities. Gunther's Family set up Donorbox as a new giving platform for donors, which provides improved donor tracking and communications. Finally, Gunther's Family regularly communicated with the Sanctuary to ensure that its activities are in compliance with all applicable OFAC and IRS requirements. Gunther's Family makes all donors aware that funds earmarked for other entities are the property of Gunther's Family and…
$26,410 spentof which $463,893 as grants$547,129 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,410.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $130k (+110%).
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 GUNTHERS FAMILY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GUNTHERS FAMILY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GUNTHERS FAMILY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GUNTHERS FAMILY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GUNTHERS FAMILY
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GUNTHERS FAMILY: 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 GUNTHERS FAMILY?
- GUNTHERS FAMILY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($51,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUNTHERS FAMILY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51,800 in grants to GUNTHERS FAMILY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUNTHERS FAMILY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $51,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUNTHERS FAMILY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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