California · Nonprofit
PATRIOTS AND PAWS
PATRIOTS AND PAWS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,570 to it, the largest being RDL CHARITABLE TRUST ($204,399). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $833k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Patriots and Paws does
Mission
Patriots and Paws help veterans and their families with furniture and small necessities needed, and provides them with a small animal for companion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provisions for Patriots provides basic home furnishings in a warehouse environment. This is the organizations largest program to date. Serving over 19,536 Veteran, Active Duty, Reservists throughout Southern California since our inception. Paws Partners is a program that has changed a bit due to a new law, SB245 (CA) allowing Veterans in California go to county shelters and adopt an animal at no cost local shelters benefits, by having more animals adopted. Because of us in 2025 NV voted in SB 325 Pets for Heros Act, which went into effect October 1, 2025. We are currently working on creating a kennel that will allow Veterans to kennel their animals with us, while they care of their personal/medical needs. Some of those helped by the organization need a purpose and having an animal gives them that purpose. Patriots and Paws volunteers contributed over 158,990 volunteer hours since we have started. All donations go to offset operating expenses. The organizations largest expense is monthly rent, and the next largest is transpiration. The remainder of funds pays for payroll of 2 full time and 6 part time employees, insurance, utilities, and fuel and office supply costs. Donor…
$4,499,527 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,499,527.
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 $1.8M to $577k (−67%).
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: 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PATRIOTS AND PAWS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $170k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 PATRIOTS AND PAWS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
PATRIOTS AND PAWS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 PATRIOTS AND PAWS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2019 96% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of PATRIOTS AND PAWS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
66% of PATRIOTS AND PAWS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PATRIOTS AND PAWS has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PATRIOTS AND PAWS
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PATRIOTS AND PAWS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PATRIOTS AND PAWS?
- PATRIOTS AND PAWS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,570 to it, the largest being RDL CHARITABLE TRUST ($204,399). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATRIOTS AND PAWS have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $832,570 in grants to PATRIOTS AND PAWS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATRIOTS AND PAWS?
- RDL CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $204,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATRIOTS AND PAWS 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.
Play a game about who funds Patriots and Paws →
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 31 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