California · Nonprofit
Kitten Central of Placer County Inc
Kitten Central of Placer County Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,078 to it, the largest being Placer Community Foundation ($81,715). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $262k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $97k
What Kitten Central of Placer County Inc does
Mission
Reduce euthanasia rates for medically dependent neonate kittens through action and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Kitten Central is the only organization of its kind in our area that provides a complete medical fostering program for orphaned neonatal kittens 28 days or younger. Our very intensive critical care can include medically administered lifesaving fluids, breathing/nebulizing treatments, glucose stabilization, abscess drainage/dressing, forced feedings and administering medications. Sometimes kittens come to us so young and sick that all we can offer them are warm loving arms to hold them while they pass, a responsibility we take on willingly.Every year local rescues and shelters are inundated with unwanted kittens. We offer our specialized services to those rescues and shelters that are unable to provide the intensive care that these critical little ones need to survive. Without our organization, these kittens would have to be euthanized.Since our inception, our partnership with our local municipal shelter, Placer County Animal Services, has enabled them to reduce their kitten euthanasia rate to 0%. As a result of these dramatic results, Placer SPCA and the Sacramento County Animal Care and Regulation also signed up as clients in 2017 to reduce their euthanasia rates.Once kittens are…
$200,144 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,144.
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 2023 to 2024, from $63k to $113k (+81%).
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.
60% of Kitten Central of Placer County Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Penny Dougherty
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $74k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Kitten Central of Placer County Inc’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
Kitten Central of Placer County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Kitten Central of Placer County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 49% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — 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 Kitten Central of Placer County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
68% of Kitten Central of Placer County 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 $78k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Kitten Central of Placer County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Kitten Central of Placer County Inc
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kitten Central of Placer County Inc: 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 Kitten Central of Placer County Inc?
- Kitten Central of Placer County Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,078 to it, the largest being Placer Community Foundation ($81,715). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kitten Central of Placer County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $248,078 in grants to Kitten Central of Placer County Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kitten Central of Placer County Inc?
- Placer Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $81,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kitten Central of Placer County Inc 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 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