California · Nonprofit
PAW SQUAD 559 INC
PAW SQUAD 559 INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,427 to it, the largest being EDWARD K MARTIN FOUNDATION INC ($211,287). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $196k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Paw Squad 559 Inc does
Mission
To rescue animals from abusive, endangering, or neglectful situations as well as animals in danger of being euthanized at area shelters/pounds to place rescued animals into permanent homes. To assist owners willing to keep dogs, by finding new homes for their dogs through the organization's owner surrender program, as an alternative to placing their dog in a public shelter or animal control facility. To educate and promote spaying/neutering animals and educate the public on how to prevent animal cruelty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Rescued animals from abusive, endangering, or neglectful situations as well as animals in danger of being euthanized at area shelters/pounds to place rescued animals into permanent homes. Assisted owners willing to keep dogs, by finding new homes for their dogs through the organization's owner surrender program, as an alternative to placing their dog in a public shelter or animal control facility. Educate and promote spaying/neutering animals and educate the public on how to prevent animal cruelty.
$169,514 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $169,514.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $6k (−84%).
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 PAW SQUAD 559 INC’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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Helga Weiss
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $50k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PAW SQUAD 559 INC’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
PAW SQUAD 559 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of PAW SQUAD 559 INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
PAW SQUAD 559 INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PAW SQUAD 559 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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAW SQUAD 559 INC?
- PAW SQUAD 559 INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,427 to it, the largest being EDWARD K MARTIN FOUNDATION INC ($211,287). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAW SQUAD 559 INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $248,427 in grants to PAW SQUAD 559 INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAW SQUAD 559 INC?
- EDWARD K MARTIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $211,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAW SQUAD 559 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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