California · Nonprofit
MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,420 to it, the largest being THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Merced Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
Since 1969, our mission has been to work collaboratively with the merced animal control division to save as many shelter animals as we can through rescue, foster, and transport; to improve our community's environmental health and safety by reducing illnesses in feral animals through trapping and vaccinations, and to continue to spay and neuter as many of merced's animals as we can through our tnr program in an effort to decrease the overwhelming euthanaisa rate due to abandonment, abuse, and overpopulation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fostered and housed: 75 animals in 2023; 68 were sent to rescue; 60 were adopted. Paid for medical services of 250 cats and kittens. Paid to euthanize 25 animals. Paid for 983 trap, neuter, and release services.donated $750 to other animal rescue centers.donated $500 to new beginnings for merced county animals.donated $250 to the nine lives foundation.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 $60k to $23k (−61%).
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 MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $244 → $334.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’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
MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: 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 MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,420 to it, the largest being THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,420 in grants to MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- THORNTON S JR AND KATRINA D GLIDE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 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 2 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