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HAPPY CAT INC

HAPPY CAT INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,334 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($100,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$382k
Net assets
$1.4M
13/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Happy Cat Inc does

Mission

To save the lives of cats and ensure they are provided with a quality of life in cluding access to medical care, proper nutrition, adequate shelter, and the freedom and safety to live without fear of sickness, neglect, or abuse.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Animal rescue and sterilization of cats and housing of homeless cats

    $11,000 spent
    2% of program spending
  2. Animal rescue and sterilization of cats and housing of homeless cats

    $571,706 spent
    98% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,706.

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 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($318k)2018 Revenue 200 ($355k) Expenses 113 ($220k) Net assets 143 ($454k)2019 Revenue 65 ($116k) Expenses 112 ($219k) Net assets 110 ($351k)2020 Revenue 510 ($906k) Expenses 390 ($760k) Net assets 143 ($455k)2021 Revenue 688 ($1.2M) Expenses 500 ($974k) Net assets 221 ($702k)2022 Revenue 822 ($1.5M) Expenses 667 ($1.3M) Net assets 271 ($863k)2023 Revenue 915 ($1.6M) Expenses 757 ($1.5M) Net assets 318 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 1058 ($1.9M) Expenses 753 ($1.5M) Net assets 448 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (1058)Expenses (753)Net assets (448)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+33%).

$318k
$457k
$351k
$476k
$733k
$887k
$1.1M
$1.4M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of HAPPY CAT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$136k
’18
−$103k
’19
$146k
’20
$247k
’21
$161k
’22
$150k
’23
$413k
’24
2.3
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.

Board chair

Christopher Arsenault

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed14444444
Joined··+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $34k.

8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 HAPPY CAT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

HAPPY CAT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% 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 HAPPY CAT INC.

26%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 59% · 2021 48% · 2022 66% · 2023 60% — 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 HAPPY CAT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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

66% of HAPPY CAT INC'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 $130k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 14 states.

WA
IL
MI
NY
WY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MO
AZ
NC
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

HAPPY CAT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 3%Fundraising 63%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAPPY CAT INC?
HAPPY CAT INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,334 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($100,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HAPPY CAT INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $382,334 in grants to HAPPY CAT INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAPPY CAT INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAPPY CAT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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