California · Nonprofit
Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives
Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,951 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($926,235). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives does
Mission
We are a community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization operating a cat-onlyclinic and adoption center. We rescue at-risk cats and kittens, provide them withclinical care and nurturing to address their medical and behavioral needs and findthem loving forever homes. We are committed to addressing the overpopulation ofhomeless cats by providing low-cost spay and neuter services for those in ourcommunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical Clinic - Low Cost Veterinary Services: Nine Lives provides low-cost spay/neuter for feral cats (Trap-Neuter-Return), the general public, and over 50 foster-based rescue partners that intake cats and find them adoptive homes. We also offer low-cost vaccinations, microchips, and other veterinary services. In 2025 we completed 6,518 spay/neuter surgeries, making us by far the largest spay/neuter clinic for cats in our area and beyond. We also administered over 10,000 vaccines and implanted 3,000 microchips.
$1,473,280 spent$1,361,277 earned by the program69% of program spendingAdoption Center - Cat & Kitten Rescue and Adoptions: we intake cats and kittens from at-risk situation. We provide them with all the medical care they need, and make them available for adoption. In 2025 we found loving homes for 1,174 cats and kittens, an increase of 25% over 2024. We are a no-kill shelter with a save rate of over 97%.
$660,559 spent$110,374 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,133,839.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $6.2M (+193%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $290k → $439k.
16 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 77% · 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 43% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% — 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
36% of Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
92% of Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives'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 $246k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives: 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 Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives?
- Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,951 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($926,235). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,135,951 in grants to Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $926,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nine Lives Foundation DBA Nine Lives 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 49 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