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HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY

HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,032 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($361,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$262k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$551k
Net assets
$17k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What Herd & Flock Animal Sanctuary does

Mission

Herd & Flock Animal Sanctuary is committed to fostering meaningful connections between farm animals and humans, inspiring a shift toward a more compassionate, plant-based lifestyle. (continued on sch o).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Herd and flock has fostered over 600 animals on the farm. Herd & flock rescues abused, neglected, and doomed animals and provides temporary lodging for animals until a permanent home can be arranged. We take in or foster farm animals who have been released from factory farming and offer homes to farm animals who are not able to be homed in urban environments, like in the bay area.

    $235,514 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Herd and flock participates in the leap (leaders for ethics, animals, and the planet) a revolutionary humane education program providing high school aged students across the nation with a compassionate alternative to traditional agriculture programs like 4-h and ffa.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,514.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2022 Revenue 82 ($91k) Expenses 172 ($131k) Net assets 30 ($18k)2023 Revenue 159 ($176k) Expenses 219 ($166k) Net assets 55 ($33k)2024 Revenue 224 ($248k) Expenses 337 ($256k) Net assets 42 ($25k)2025 Revenue 237 ($262k) Expenses 357 ($271k) Net assets 28 ($17k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (237)Expenses (357)Net assets (28)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 2021 to 2022, from $60k to $18k (−70%).

$60k
$18k
$33k
$26k
$17k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’21
−$40k
’22
$10k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$9k
’25
0.5
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.

Chief executive

Meghan Dibble

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed78
Joined·+3
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $62k → $130k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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

HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY.

66%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 40% · 2021 98% · 2022 71% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.

IL
NY
CA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $519k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY: 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 HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,032 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($361,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $551,032 in grants to HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $361,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HERD & FLOCK ANIMAL SANCTUARY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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