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SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC

SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,342 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($45,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$61k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$37k
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Sacramento Shelter Pets Alive Inc does

Mission

SSPA provides a safety net to regional animal shelter programs.This is primarily accomplished through the provision of behavioral evaluation services foster and adoption programs and after adoption counseling and training. Also we have begun twice weekly behavioral evaluation and training for dogs and owners. This is provided on an individual basis and is free of charge. Services are performed at our facility.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. We have restarted our transport of shelter dogs to a rescue in Canada. We are now working directly with the Oakland CA Animal Shelter to perform quarterly transports of up to 20 dogs to Prairie Pitbull Rescue in Lethbridge Canada.

    $9,725 spent
    20% of program spending
  2. SSPA is also working with Oakland Animal Shelter to locate and coordinate fosters for the shelters at-risk dogs.

    $4,500 spent
    9% of program spending
  3. SSPA is providing twice weekly evaluation and training services for dog owners. This free service is provided dog adopters throughout our region.

    $34,091 spent
    71% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,316.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 144 ($226k) Expenses 133 ($205k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2023 Revenue 126 ($198k) Expenses 108 ($167k) Net assets 225 ($54k)2024 Revenue 39 ($61k) Expenses 51 ($79k) Net assets 151 ($37k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (39)Expenses (51)Net assets (151)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 $24k to $54k (+125%).

$4k
$24k
$54k
$37k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’21
$20k
’22
$31k
’23
−$18k
’24
1.4
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $31k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC’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

SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC.

40%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 61% · 2022 95% · 2023 33% — 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

25% of SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

68% of SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC'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 $37k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from California funders.

CA
MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC's revenue fell 61% between 2021 and 2024.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−27% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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 SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC?
SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,342 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($45,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $115,342 in grants to SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $45,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SACRAMENTO SHELTER PETS ALIVE INC find more funders?
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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