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PAW WORKS INC

PAW WORKS INC (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,946,321 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($563,976). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$359k
14/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Paw Works Inc does

Mission

Paw works was organized to keep ventura county and other california counties no-kill for dogs and cats.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Paw works provides medical care, boarding and placement for animals at risk ofeuthanization. The organization also works to find homes for animals through adoption events as well as acting as a liason between local public shelters and other local rescues. Paw works also provides veterinary care, both preventative and life saving treatment to community animals.

    $1,377,335 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,377,335.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($965k) Expenses 100 ($780k) Net assets -27 ($-17894)2018 Revenue 103 ($998k) Expenses 117 ($913k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2019 Revenue 103 ($993k) Expenses 137 ($1.1M) Net assets -14 ($-9440)2020 Revenue 147 ($1.4M) Expenses 128 ($999k) Net assets 612 ($408k)2021 Revenue 195 ($1.9M) Expenses 246 ($1.9M) Net assets 399 ($266k)2022 Revenue 206 ($2.0M) Expenses 238 ($1.9M) Net assets 603 ($402k)2023 Revenue 194 ($1.9M) Expenses 266 ($2.1M) Net assets 300 ($200k)2024 Revenue 184 ($1.8M) Expenses 207 ($1.6M) Net assets 538 ($359k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (207)Net assets (538)Peer revenue range

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 $666k to $1.1M (+67%).

$195k
$277k
$196k
$591k
$666k
$1.1M
$858k
$929k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of PAW WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$185k
’17
$85k
’18
−$76k
’19
$418k
’20
−$41k
’21
$136k
’22
−$202k
’23
$159k
’24
0.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Christina Holtzheuser-Morgan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed5425
Joined·+1··
No longer listed·2··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $90k → $271k.

11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 WORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

PAW WORKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

56% 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 PAW WORKS INC.

29%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 40% · 2019 31% · 2020 55% · 2021 62% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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 PAW WORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PAW WORKS INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.

WA
MI
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
UT
AZ
KS
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $908k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PAW WORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PAW WORKS INC?
PAW WORKS INC (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,946,321 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($563,976). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PAW WORKS INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,946,321 in grants to PAW WORKS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAW WORKS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $563,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAW WORKS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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