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TARGET ZERO INC

TARGET ZERO INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,042 to it, the largest being EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ($83,042). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$15k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
$0
0/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Target Zero Inc does

Mission

Organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals;

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

Mentoring proven-to-work best practices strategies to shelter leaders in fellow communities (at no charge) to help them get to zero euthanasia of all adoptable shelter animals.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($279k) Expenses 100 ($374k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2019 Revenue 5 ($15k) Expenses 1 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20182019
Revenue (5)Expenses (1)Net assets (0)

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 $82k to $0 (−100%).

$82k
$0
20182019
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.

2018
2019
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$95k
’18
$11k
’19
2.6
months of
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.

20182019
Listed11
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $83k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 TARGET ZERO 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

TARGET ZERO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 TARGET ZERO INC.

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 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

100% of TARGET ZERO INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’18
’19
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like TARGET ZERO INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

7% of spending goes to programs.

Program 7%Management 93%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TARGET ZERO INC: 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 TARGET ZERO INC?
TARGET ZERO INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,042 to it, the largest being EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ($83,042). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TARGET ZERO INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $98,042 in grants to TARGET ZERO INC.
Who is the largest funder of TARGET ZERO INC?
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $83,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TARGET ZERO INC 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 3 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