California · Nonprofit
MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION
MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($58,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $0
What Max's Helping Paws Foundation does
Mission
Reduce economic euthanasia, surrender, and suffering of severly ill or injured pets by providing pet owners assistance with the costs of urgent medical care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Critical care/short-term care: medical diagnostics, stabilization and initial treatment for chronic illness or acute injury.
$96,398 spent58% of program spendingDiagnostic/stabilization: diagnostics/stabilization/initial treatment when the owner otherwise cannot afford to get to the vet because of financial limitations.
$68,987 spent41% of program spendingContinued/long-term care: continued care for newly diagnostics chronic medical conditions.
$1,089 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $166,474.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $698k to $0 (−100%).
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.
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
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
Sara Davi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $750 → $74k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION’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
MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 70% · 2021 39% · 2022 34% · 2023 24% — 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
67% of MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
75%
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 MAX'S HELPING PAWS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION?
- MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($58,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $390,450 in grants to MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $58,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAX'S HELPING PAWS 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing