California · Nonprofit
Saving Ferals
Saving Ferals (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,176 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($24,252). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Saving Ferals does
Mission
It is my mission to continue saving the feral cats otherwise known as stray cats at the Tracy animal shelter. It is also my passion to TNR (trap, neuter and return) as many cats in business parking lots as possible. These are the forgotten ones; however, they all have caretakers. The caretakers provide food and water; however, they need assistance with spay and neuter. What we don't do is we don't do adoptions, we don't foster, we don't take your cats that you feed, we don't relocate a stray or feral cat unless in an extreme case it has become a danger. What we do is educate our community in spay and neuter and the proper way to trap a feral cat. We also educate in the proper way to feed a feral or stray cat. A stray or feral cat can make great pets. They can provide love and comfort in keeping rodents under control. Best of all you can save their life, prior to September 2017, the Tracy Animal Shelter was euthanizing 100% feral or stray cats that are not adoptable.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Spay/Neutred local cats and released them or re-homed them. Fed and provided medical care for established feral cat colonies.
$69,176 spent$74,098 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $69,176.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $15k to $8k (−46%).
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 Saving Ferals’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Saving Ferals’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
Saving Ferals leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Saving Ferals.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 50% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of Saving Ferals'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Saving Ferals runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Saving Ferals
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Saving Ferals: 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 Saving Ferals?
- Saving Ferals (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,176 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($24,252). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Saving Ferals have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,176 in grants to Saving Ferals, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Saving Ferals?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $24,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Saving Ferals 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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