Missouri · Nonprofit
TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE
TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,111 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($148,770). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $449k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $234k
What Tenth Life Cat Rescue does
Mission
Tenth life provides veterinary care, foster homes, and adoptive placement to stray cats and kittens, prioritizing those with special needs. The organization works to end unnecessary euthanasia and cat homelessness through educational outreach, community programs, and collaborative partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During 2024, 225 tenth life cats found forever homes through adoption and another 114 were continuing to be cared for by tenth life and its dedicated fosters. Of those adopted, some required special medical care and rehabilitation during their time at tenth life. Examples include: bottle fed neonates, injured paws, limbs, and tails, deformities and neurological damage needing specialized care, heart murmurs requiring medication, and vision impairments. The story of each cat is unique but each one ended with a cat being placed in a home where they will be given the lives they deserve.
$237,971 spent68% of program spendingTenth life believes that humane education can be found in every contact with members of our community. We welcome student, social, corporate, and civic groups to learn about how we can all positively impact cats' lives. In 2024, tenth life coducted educational sessions for youth groups and regularly hosted service hours for an animal welfare student organization. Our tenth life cat companions program brought cats to residential patients at 1 location.
Tenth Life Cat Rescue currently leases a storefront location in saint louis that is open to the public by appointment and non-appointment times one saturday per month from 12pm-2pm. This location houses, on average, 20 cats and kittens in a cage-free environment. The storefront is designed to reflect a typical home atmosphere with living room/gathering spaces and provides guests and volunteers with opportunities to socialize with cats, conduct service projects, and provide valuable humane education to youth and community groups.
$113,864 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,835.
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 2022 to 2023, from $277k to $344k (+25%).
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 3% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Megan Fogliano
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $19k → $64k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE’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
TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 63% · 2020 75% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
56% of TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE'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
56% of TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE'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 $210k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE is better cushioned than half of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE?
- TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,111 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($148,770). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $474,111 in grants to TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $148,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 23 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