California · Nonprofit
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (California) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,996,373 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared funders
- Lacey Family Foundationportfolio match
- Ethel Frends Charitable 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: 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 22 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $724k → $1.8M.
21 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 85% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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 89 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared fundersNC · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Lacey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ethel Frends Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heiser Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wings of Rescue Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Ceteraportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alley Cat Allies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bastoni-Evans Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human-Animal Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banfield Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 69 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 Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: 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 Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation?
- Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (California) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,996,373 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $22,996,373 in grants to Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation?
- ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 89funders 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