California · Nonprofit
Pets Lifeline Inc
Pets Lifeline Inc (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,790 to it, the largest being Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust ($950,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Pets Lifeline Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Banfield Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Rachael Ray Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2021 6% · 2023 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Pets Lifeline Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $532k → $499k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Lifeline Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 Lifeline Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
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 Lifeline Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 65% · 2019 50% · 2020 41% · 2021 21% · 2022 26% · 2023 50% — 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
39% of Pets Lifeline Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Pets Lifeline Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 51 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Banfield Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 107 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared fundersportfolio matchNC · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Rachael Ray Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Humane Society Silicon Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ethel Frends Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vadasz Family Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Chrissie's Fund a Delaware Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dmarlou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pet Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orphan Kitten Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petfinder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Best Friends Animal Societyshared fundersUT · backs 151 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Pets Lifeline Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pets Lifeline Inc: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Pets Lifeline Inc?
- Pets Lifeline Inc (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,790 to it, the largest being Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust ($950,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pets Lifeline Inc have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,997,790 in grants to Pets Lifeline Inc, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pets Lifeline Inc?
- Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pets Lifeline 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 51funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing