California · Nonprofit
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,032,695 to it, the largest being WWW FOUNDATION ($8,440,714). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funders
- The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bankportfolio match
- Lynne Cooper Harvey Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $2.5M.
20 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 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
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
37% 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 HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 52% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 37% · 2023 22% — 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
43% of HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
77% of HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 137 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lynne Cooper Harvey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barnsley Emma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kyad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Kenneth a Charitable Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- French Fund Samuel Katherine Tuashared fundersMO · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER?
- HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,032,695 to it, the largest being WWW FOUNDATION ($8,440,714). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $24,032,695 in grants to HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER?
- WWW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,440,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER 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.
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 137funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing