California · Nonprofit
Pets In Need
Pets In Need (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,372,191 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,012,267). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Pets In Need does
Mission
The mission of pets in need is to provide animals with loving care and lasting homes, to partner with communities striving to do the same, and to advance our no-kill legacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical - Pets In Need is dedicated to optimizing the health, safety, and well-being of its shelter guests, and community animals. Each shelter is supported by a skilled veterinary team and volunteers who deliver exceptional care and quality medical services. Animals arriving through intake or from high-intake regional shelters receive comprehensive medical attention, including basic exams, spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and deworming regimens. For animals requiring advanced or specialized treatment, Pets In Need provides care in-house and through trusted partner specialty providers. Additionally, our community veterinary clinic offers affordable wellness services to pets in the community, ensuring even more animals receive the care they need to thrive. The medical team performed 1,764 procedures and 3,672 vaccinations for pets this year.
$2,675,751 spentof which $90,432 as grants$283,733 earned by the program48% of program spendingAnimal Care and Foster - Our animal care team is comprised of dedicated staff who ensure the daily needs and well-being of all sheltered and fostered pets are met. Foster coordinators collaborate with Pets In Need's significant foster network to place animals in temporary homes, helping to expand shelter capacity while providing animals with love and support on their journey to adoption. Foster volunteers play a vital role by temporarily opening their homes, allowing us to care for more animals, including those with special needs. Additionally, time in foster allows animals the opportunity to learn how to live successfully in homes and helps to alleviate stress. The animal care and foster team found foster homes for 970 pets this year.
$1,551,097 spent$43,932 earned by the program28% of program spendingAdoptions - The adoptions team provides daily care and enrichment for in-shelter animals, facilitates adoption matches, and offers guidance to potential adopters, all while championing barrier-free adoptions to help place more animals in loving homes. Pets In Need also maintains a large and dedicated volunteer base that supports various organizational activities. The development and communications department drives adoption efforts through a comprehensive marketing program, utilizing the website, social media, email campaigns, and special adoption events and promotions. The adoptions team found homes for 1,218 pets this year.
$852,110 spent$205,286 earned by the program15% of program spendingBehavior - An onsite behavior team collaborates with volunteers to train and enrich dogs, enhancing their adoptability. Our large volunteer corps works daily with dogs for behavior support and modification, enrichment, and emotional connection to mitigate stress and amplify behavioral well-being. Behavior services are essential for our dogs to learn basic commands, walk well on a leash and be social in public places, maintain emotional stability, and transition smoothly into a home setting.Our dedicated volunteers also work with cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs, socializing them to increase their chances of adoption success and to mitigate fear, stress, and boredom. Pets in foster-to-adopt programs or those already adopted are more likely to experience successful placements after receiving guidance and support from our behaviorists.We also offer affordable and accessible behavior training, online and in-person, to support pet parents in the Bay Area (and beyond) to bond with their furry family members and ensure their animals' emotional and behavioral wellness. Expenses $375,060. Including grants of $0. Revenue $.Outreach - Pets In Need embraces a community-based approach to saving…
$545,520 spentof which $6,503 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,624,478.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $17M (+28%).
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: 2022 17% · 2023 6% · 2024 24% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Pets In Need’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Laura Toller Gardner
CEO
Board chair
Rob Kalman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 32 funders, grant income fell $896k → $603k.
17 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 In Need’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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 In Need has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
57% 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 In Need.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 22% · 2019 25% · 2020 18% · 2021 33% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
53% of Pets In Need's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
56% of Pets In Need'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Pets In Need's revenue grew 111% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Pets In Need
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 Pets In Need: 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 In Need?
- Pets In Need (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,372,191 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,012,267). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Pets In Need have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $6,372,191 in grants to Pets In Need, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pets In Need?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,012,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pets In Need 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 84 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