California · Nonprofit
MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC (California) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,577,647 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($35,114,325). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 227
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Mercy for Animals Inc does
Mission
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. Our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free drives the work we do every day.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our public engagement team expanded its reach, inspiring news stories in large media outlets, collaborating and strategic partnerships with celebrities to expand our reach, producing hard-hitting videos that expose factory farming, and educating millions through social media on the benefits of plant-based eating. Our content reached millions of viewers and social media users, helping to raise awareness and inspire action for animal welfare globally.we also supported significant corporate and legislative wins, ensuring ongoing progress for farmed animals. Our corporate engagement team helped advance campaigns to improve protections for farmed animals and promote plant-based eating.
$16,269,999 spentof which $7,018,515 as grants90% of program spendingTransfarmation. Our mission is to build collective power sufficient to realize a just and sustainable food system. Transfarmation does this by helping farmers transition from industrial animal agriculture operations to raising crops for human consumption. By creating models of alternative economic opportunities, building solidarity with other movements, and shifting societal narratives to change culture, we will realize a just and sustainable food system.
$1,169,842 spent6% of program spendingInvestigations show the harsh realities of the treatment of farmed animals. Our investigations land coverage in media, and can help lead to major changes in the animal agricultural system and public perception to further action for animal welfare and protection of farmed animals.
$686,727 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,126,568.
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 2021 to 2022, from $28M to $41M (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% 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
Leah Garces
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Neysa Colizzi
Board chair and director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 93 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $5.3M.
41 of 227 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 227 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
MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 31% · 2019 79% · 2020 44% · 2021 62% · 2022 73% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of MERCY FOR ANIMALS 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 $14M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC has grown faster than half of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MERCY FOR ANIMALS 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 44 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mfa Transfarmation Project LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY FOR ANIMALS 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 MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC?
- MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC (California) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,577,647 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($35,114,325). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 227 organizations giving $63,577,647 in grants to MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC, 114 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,114,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY FOR ANIMALS 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.
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 227 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