North Carolina · Nonprofit
SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS
SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS (North Carolina) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,184 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($356,664). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $819k
What Safe Haven for Cats does
Mission
The mission of Safe Haven for Cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through our adoption program we found homes for 1,139 stray cats, this also means that each cat's time at the shelter is shrinking and they are finding homes quicker and quicker. The average time it takes a cat to get adopted at safe haven is 24 days. We attribute this success to our adopters, volunteer adoption counselors, special groups of behavior experts (the cat enrichment crews), and life-saving fosters. This is in part thanks to our generous volunteers who donated 9,686 hours of their time, valued at over $308,000!
$1,108,084 spent$124,040 earned by the program61% of program spendingOur safe care, low-cost spay/neuter clinic specializes in helping the public with pets, strays, and feral cats. The goal: to spay and neuter as many cats and kittens as we can every day, to reduce the euthanasia of healthy animals. This past year, the clinic performed 6,825 surgeries on cats from 38 counties in north carolina, including the sterilization and vaccination of 1,589 feral/community cats. Safe haven helps other rescue groups and shelters to make sure more cats get sterilized before adoption. This past year, they sterilized 2,385 cats and kittens as a vital service to 19 rescue groups and humane societies. Several hundred cats who use the spay/neuter services of the clinic have never been to a veterinarian. Were it not for the availability of these services, many cats would go unneutered, and hundreds of homeless kittens would be born.as a "no kill" shelter, we believe in treating every medical condition we can. Uncontrolled cat population is the number one reason for euthanasia in our state. More than 63,800 animals have been spayed or neutered at our safe care clinic since 2001.
$653,167 spent$256,807 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe pet food pantry is the only one of its kind in wake county. Last year, we fed over 750 cats and dogs by providing over 15,000 pounds of food. The goal of this program is to assist pet owners when times are tough so they do not have to abandon or give up their pets. Additionally, through screening, we are able to identify animals who need our free spay/neuter services.
$67,302 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,828,553.
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 $1.1M to $1.7M (+50%).
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: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Mary Ka Powers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $88k → $215k.
12 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
76% 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 SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 49% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 23% — 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
54% of SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
59% of SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS'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 $617k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $901k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS's revenue grew 82% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS?
- SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS (North Carolina) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,184 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($356,664). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,518,184 in grants to SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $356,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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