New Jersey · Nonprofit
LUCKY CAT RESCUE
LUCKY CAT RESCUE (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,993 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($64,229). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Lucky Cat Rescue does
Mission
The Lucky Cat Rescue (TLC) works to help and reduce the homeless cat and kitten populations of Hudson County NJ through owner education, TNR (trap-neuter-return) of feral cats and the rehabilitation and adoption of abandoned, surrendered, or homeless cats into safe and loving homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Lucky Cat Rescue provided food and shelter for feral "community cats" as well as food and supplies for our rescued cats that are in foster homes waiting for adoption. We average 50 cats in homes at all times.
$13,892 spent51% of program spendingThe Lucky Cat Rescue provided emergency medical care for cats rescued from the streets in hoarding and abuse situations. Many times this has included trips to the emergency room for life threating injuries.
$7,700 spent28% of program spendingThe Lucky Cat Rescue provided veterinary services for over 150 cats. Veterinary services include; spaying or neutering, FIV/FeLV testing, microchipping and a full spectrum of vaccinations. We also TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) feral cats in the area so they can live their life without reproducing.
$5,613 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,205.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $27k to $14k (−49%).
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.
100% of LUCKY CAT RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $31k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 LUCKY CAT 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
LUCKY CAT RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 LUCKY CAT RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 63% · 2022 81% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of LUCKY CAT RESCUE'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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
LUCKY CAT RESCUE's revenue fell 53% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LUCKY CAT 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 New Jersey
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUCKY CAT 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 LUCKY CAT RESCUE?
- LUCKY CAT RESCUE (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,993 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($64,229). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUCKY CAT RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $132,993 in grants to LUCKY CAT RESCUE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCKY CAT RESCUE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $64,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCKY CAT RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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