California · Nonprofit
HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE
HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,463 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($121,725). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $820
What Heading Home Animal Rescue does
Mission
Founded in 2011, Heading Home Animal Rescue is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to finding good homes for local shelter animals in need. Some of these pets just need help meeting their new family and getting out into the community, while others are too young to be adoptable when they enter the shelter, have medical needs, or are shy. While their needs are varied, our goal is to act as a bridge for those animals; we provide them the care, time, and love they need in order to be at their best when the right person comes along to take them home. We are few, but we are mighty, and we are committed to our community's animals.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Continued partnership with Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter to provide animals with any necessary vet care, including spay/neuter, general health and any specialized care needed.
$72,269 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,269.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5k to $31k (+489%).
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.
56% of HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Melissa Finley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $521.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE’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
HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 56% · 2021 65% · 2022 49% · 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
HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.
Against its field
HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE: 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 HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE?
- HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,463 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($121,725). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $191,463 in grants to HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $121,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADING HOME ANIMAL RESCUE 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 2017–2024), 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