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PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES

PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,731 to it, the largest being MARY JO AND HANK GREENBERG ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$625k
Net assets
$1.7M
13/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Pets Are Wonderful Support Los Angeles does

Mission

Assisting low-income elderly, veterans and other people living with life-threatening illnesses care for their companion animals; and providing housing resources and referrals to people living with hiv/aids.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assisting low income elderly, veterans and other people living with life threatening illnesses care for their companion animals; and providing housing resources and referrals to people living with hiv/aids.

    $1,023,926 spentof which $46,705 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,023,926.

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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 85 ($1.4M) Expenses 121 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 78 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 116 ($1.4M) Net assets 89 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 92 ($1.5M) Expenses 103 ($1.3M) Net assets 109 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.8M) Expenses 118 ($1.4M) Net assets 134 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 81 ($1.4M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 134 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 61 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 121 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (100)Net assets (121)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 $1.6M to $2.3M (+43%).

$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$1.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 36% · 2023 55% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 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.

$462k
’17
−$55k
’18
$37k
’19
−$83k
’20
$284k
’21
$354k
’22
$41k
’23
−$195k
’24
8.2
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.

Chief executive

Pamela L Magette

Exec. Director

Board chair

Steve Wayland

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed77777767
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1+2
No longer listed·0000021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $123k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
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total
Petsmart Charities Incunclassified
$20k
funders
7
7
8
7
10
8
5
6
4

5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 27 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

PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% 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 PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES.

34%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 52% · 2019 60% · 2020 80% · 2021 36% · 2022 65% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

90% of PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
PA
NJ
CA
MO
AZ
TN

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES

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

Pet Project Foundation Inc81%Healthcare for Homeless Animals80%Pasadena Humane80%Fosters & Paws79%Canine Support Teams Inc79%The Cat House on the Kings Inc79%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc78%Affordable Pet Care Group of Los Angeles78%

Nationally

Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless83%Pets for Patriots Inc82%Paws - Providing Animal Welfare Services82%Pet Project Foundation Inc81%Pet Partners81%Protectors of Animals Inc81%Pets Are Loving Support Inc81%Helping Paws Inc81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES: 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 PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES?
PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,731 to it, the largest being MARY JO AND HANK GREENBERG ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $624,731 in grants to PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES?
MARY JO AND HANK GREENBERG ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES 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 27 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