California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,946,285 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,010,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
For more than 132 years, the sacramento spca has worked to reduce pet overpopulation through affordable spay/neuter services, promote humane treatment of animals through education and outreach, and keep pets and their families together for life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The sacramento spca serves the entire sacramento region as a premier provider of low-cost spay/neuter services, and all animals in our care are spayed or neutered before release for adoption. In 2024, more than 18,400 animals were sterilized. Our proactive outreach programs facilitate the spaying/neutering of companion animals and free-roaming cats in our communities, including encouraging the participation of people who may be reluctant or unable to pay for such services. We provided 836 surgeries at no cost for pit bulls, pit mixes, and chihuahuas through our we pay to spay program. Through our community cat program 6,369 cats were altered at a low or no cost to our tnr partners. Additionally, 46,220 low-cost and no-cost vaccinations, and 596 low-cost veterinary exams were provided to the community.
$4,865,937 spent$2,029,363 earned by the program52% of program spendingThe sacramento spca provides a comprehensive spectrum of services to a 990-square-mile area of sacramento county and surrounding communities. In 2024, more than 40,000 animals were positively impacted through services provided at the sacramento spca, including animal care, sheltering, foster care and adoptions; animal behavior support; lost pet resources; and low-cost medical services. More than 73,600 pounds of free pet food were served to low-income families through our pet food pantry. The sacramento spca currently has more than 15,500 active supporters and 800 active volunteers. We have collaborative agreements with pet food companies, local veterinarians, pharmaceutical companies, and the university of california davis school of veterinary medicine, all with the express purpose of improving care for shelter animals.
$2,619,623 spent$873,354 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe sacramento spca provides a safe and nurturing environment for lost, unwanted, abandoned, and mistreated pets until they can be permanently placed into loving homes. Through proactive intervention, public education, and community outreach efforts, more than 3,660 animals were placed into loving homes, and an additional 2,118 were placed through foster care and rescue partners during the calendar year 2024. Another 524 animals were transported from overburdened shelters in the community to the sacramento spca for adoption and 266 animals were reunited with their families after being lost.
$827,231 spent$200,304 earned by the program9% of program spendingOur community outreach programs provide humane education to children and adults each year through camps at the shelter, school visits to k-12 grades, participation in community events, animal/human interaction therapy at nursing homes and hospitals, and free or low-cost vaccinations and adoptions to seniors.
$1,098,194 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,410,985.
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 $21M to $28M (+37%).
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: 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Susan Gray
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $124k → $436k.
14 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
89% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 43% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 76% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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
30% of SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
72% of SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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
SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,946,285 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,010,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,946,285 in grants to SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 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 66 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