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MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY

MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,780 to it, the largest being THE DIANE WARREN FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$579k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$45k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary does

Program

  1. Provide a forever home for farm animals subjected to cruelty, abuse, neglect, or which are simply unwanted.

    $516,319 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($4k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 1564 ($60k) Expenses 1368 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2022 Revenue 4313 ($164k) Expenses 3918 ($149k) Net assets 302 ($22k)2023 Revenue 7940 ($302k) Expenses 7302 ($278k) Net assets 629 ($47k)2024 Revenue 12222 ($465k) Expenses 12619 ($480k) Net assets 426 ($32k)2025 Revenue 15226 ($579k) Expenses 14869 ($566k) Net assets 608 ($45k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (15226)Expenses (14869)Net assets (608)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 2022 to 2023, from $22k to $47k (+108%).

$0
$7k
$22k
$47k
$32k
$45k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed333377
Joined·+0+0+0+5+0
No longer listed·00010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $9k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

70%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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

90% of MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
VA

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

’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)173% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARTHA'S FARM 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 MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,780 to it, the largest being THE DIANE WARREN FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $49,780 in grants to MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
THE DIANE WARREN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARTHA'S FARM 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 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