California · Nonprofit
PUP CULTURE RESCUE
PUP CULTURE RESCUE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,475 to it, the largest being ACHILLES FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $644k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $94k
What Pup Culture Rescue does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to rescue animals, primarily dogs, find forever homes for these animals, and educate the public regarding the benefit of adoption and fostering animals. Through a fostering and education approach, every pup is united with their perfect match. Through outreach and education we are committed to preventing dogs from abandonment and easing the stress on our shelter system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through public awareness, we get multiple qualified applicants for each individual dog. Adoption coordinators reach out and connect the right fit for the dog.each adoption is followed up with a coordinator scheduled virtual home check. Through these modern processes, the organization safely and effectively continues to match dogs with a forever homes, thus decreasing sheltered animals and most importantly, saving dogs and the people they are paired with.
$521,834 spent$644,432 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $521,834.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $39k to $94k (+142%).
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 PUP CULTURE RESCUE’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 3 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
Victoria Shaffer
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PUP CULTURE RESCUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 6 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
PUP CULTURE RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2022 65% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
PUP CULTURE RESCUE draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
PUP CULTURE RESCUE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PUP CULTURE RESCUE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUP CULTURE RESCUE: 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 PUP CULTURE RESCUE?
- PUP CULTURE RESCUE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,475 to it, the largest being ACHILLES FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUP CULTURE RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $35,475 in grants to PUP CULTURE RESCUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUP CULTURE RESCUE?
- ACHILLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUP CULTURE RESCUE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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