California · Nonprofit
Teaching Everyone Animals Matter
Teaching Everyone Animals Matter (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,305 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($134,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Teaching Everyone Animals Matter does
Mission
Together with Animal Care and Regulation staff, TEAM Volunteers strive to: Increase adoptions of eligible animals, improve public awareness of animal care and responsbility issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering, raise funds to treat and care for the sick and injured animals taken in at the shelter and assist with efforts to make shelter animals more adoptable; expand humane education opportunities and provide foster care and breed rescue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Team's special medical needs program helps fund veterinary care for shelter animals who are ill, injured or victims of crisis.
$37,706 spent35% of program spendingCommunity Outreach - Sponsor community-based spay and neuter clinics serving low-income residents; fund training sessions for new adopters and fosters; communicate education focused on the importance of spay & neuter and responsible pet ownership; and provide resources and group discussions.
$42,293 spent39% of program spendingOther Programs - Assist in improving the health, well-being, and adoption prospects of shelter animals at the Sacramento County Bradshaw Animal Shelter and throughout the Sacramento community by: funding specialized veterinary care and treatment for injured, sick, and neglected animals; financially supporting animal rescue efforts; purchasing much-needed, necessary medical equipment and supplies for the shelter's on-site surgery facility; funding spay and neuter clinics; sponsoring adoption fees; and providing financial assistance to other animal welfare organizations.
$28,541 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,540.
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 2024 to 2025, from $129k to $179k (+39%).
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 Teaching Everyone Animals Matter’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% 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
Lisa Milanes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $31k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Teaching Everyone Animals Matter’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
Teaching Everyone Animals Matter leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
100% 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 Teaching Everyone Animals Matter.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 78% · 2020 68% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
65% of Teaching Everyone Animals Matter'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 $102k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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
Teaching Everyone Animals Matter runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Teaching Everyone Animals Matter
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.
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 Teaching Everyone Animals Matter: 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 Teaching Everyone Animals Matter?
- Teaching Everyone Animals Matter (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,305 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($134,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Teaching Everyone Animals Matter have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $289,305 in grants to Teaching Everyone Animals Matter, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Teaching Everyone Animals Matter?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $134,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Teaching Everyone Animals Matter 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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