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RESCUE RANCH

RESCUE RANCH (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,087,912 to it, the largest being HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($613,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$908k
15/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Rescue Ranch does

Mission

Our mission is to rescue, nurture and give medical attention to unwanted, lost, abandoned and mistreated dogs until an adoption can be arranged into a proper loving home

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We are a no kill shelter and rely on donations from our community and local businesses.

    $1,111,608 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,111,608.

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 ($402k) Expenses 100 ($356k) Net assets 100 ($607k)2018 Revenue 101 ($408k) Expenses 167 ($594k) Net assets 69 ($421k)2019 Revenue 120 ($482k) Expenses 139 ($496k) Net assets 64 ($386k)2020 Revenue 122 ($490k) Expenses 139 ($494k) Net assets 63 ($383k)2021 Revenue 194 ($780k) Expenses 187 ($666k) Net assets 81 ($491k)2022 Revenue 210 ($845k) Expenses 273 ($972k) Net assets 82 ($497k)2023 Revenue 365 ($1.5M) Expenses 311 ($1.1M) Net assets 141 ($854k)2024 Revenue 361 ($1.5M) Expenses 392 ($1.4M) Net assets 150 ($908k)
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Revenue (361)Expenses (392)Net assets (150)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 2022 to 2023, from $502k to $856k (+71%).

$614k
$421k
$386k
$383k
$491k
$502k
$856k
$920k
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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

78% of RESCUE RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’17
−$186k
’18
−$14k
’19
−$3k
’20
$114k
’21
−$127k
’22
$358k
’23
$54k
’24
2.3
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.

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Listed119966566
Joined·+1+0+0+3+0+1+0
No longer listed·3033100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $109k → $342k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 RESCUE RANCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

RESCUE RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

81% 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 RESCUE RANCH.

29%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 47% · 2021 61% · 2022 57% · 2023 51% — 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

55% of RESCUE RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

RESCUE RANCH draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
AZ
TX

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. $448k 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

RESCUE RANCH has grown faster than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

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

Organizations like RESCUE RANCH

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

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 RESCUE RANCH?
RESCUE RANCH (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,087,912 to it, the largest being HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($613,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RESCUE RANCH have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,087,912 in grants to RESCUE RANCH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RESCUE RANCH?
HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $613,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESCUE RANCH 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 21 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