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The Best Little Cat House in PA

The Best Little Cat House in PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,600 to it, the largest being BEATRICE RENFIELD FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$124k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
$280k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What The Best Little Cat House in PA does

Program

  1. Provide hospice care for terminally ill or disabled animals, in particular, domestic cats.

    $73,129 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($156k)2018 Revenue 66 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 93 ($145k)2019 Revenue 70 ($45k) Expenses 98 ($53k) Net assets 88 ($138k)2020 Revenue 72 ($46k) Expenses 86 ($46k) Net assets 88 ($138k)2021 Revenue 139 ($89k) Expenses 95 ($51k) Net assets 112 ($175k)2022 Revenue 175 ($112k) Expenses 112 ($60k) Net assets 128 ($201k)2023 Revenue 131 ($84k) Expenses 129 ($69k) Net assets 138 ($216k)2024 Revenue 195 ($124k) Expenses 113 ($60k) Net assets 179 ($280k)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (113)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $218k to $281k (+29%).

$157k
$145k
$138k
$138k
$175k
$203k
$218k
$281k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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No longer listed·011000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $10k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 The Best Little Cat House in PA’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

The Best Little Cat House in PA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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

The Best Little Cat House in PA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

WA
NY
CA

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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

Against its field

The Best Little Cat House in PA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve46.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like The Best Little Cat House in PA

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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Best Little Cat House in PA?
The Best Little Cat House in PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,600 to it, the largest being BEATRICE RENFIELD FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Best Little Cat House in PA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,600 in grants to The Best Little Cat House in PA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Best Little Cat House in PA?
BEATRICE RENFIELD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Best Little Cat House in PA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 4 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