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SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY

SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,849 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($50,601). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$56k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$123k
Net assets
$4k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Sisters Animal Sanctuary does

Mission

To rescue cats and educate community regarding pet care and neutering.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Rescue cats (including feral cats) to provide a place of refuge and protection until loving permanent homes can be found.Provide a lifetime home for animals that do not get adopted or are unadoptable.Run a feral cat assistance program including trap/neuter/return training, education, and guidance to the community.Loan equipment to the community to assist them in their rescue efforts.Reduce the animal overpopulation by assisting the community with low-cost spay/neuter resources.Work with the city and county to make positive changes in their animal services programs.

    $58,628 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,628.

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 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2018 Revenue 77 ($69k) Expenses 99 ($83k) Net assets 18 ($3k)2019 Revenue 79 ($71k) Expenses 77 ($64k) Net assets 60 ($10k)2020 Revenue 102 ($91k) Expenses 97 ($81k) Net assets 122 ($21k)2021 Revenue 55 ($49k) Expenses 56 ($47k) Net assets 134 ($23k)2022 Revenue 46 ($41k) Expenses 42 ($35k) Net assets 174 ($30k)2023 Revenue 70 ($63k) Expenses 72 ($60k) Net assets 188 ($32k)2024 Revenue 62 ($56k) Expenses 70 ($59k) Net assets 24 ($4k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (70)Net assets (24)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $4k (−87%).

$17k
$3k
$10k
$21k
$23k
$30k
$32k
$4k
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Total assets

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$14k
’18
$7k
’19
$11k
’20
$2k
’21
$7k
’22
$2k
’23
−$3k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $199.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY’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

SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42% 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 SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY.

41%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 40% · 2019 43% · 2020 55% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

69% of SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,849 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($50,601). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $122,849 in grants to SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY?
Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SISTERS ANIMAL SANCTUARY 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 6 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