California · Nonprofit
VCA CHARITIES
VCA CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,476 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Vca Charities does
Mission
See schedule o. Through grants and partnerships with shelters and animal welfare organizations, we help remove barriers to pet ownership and help keep pets in loving homes by funding emergency and specialty veterinary care; supporting adoption readiness and surrender prevention programs; enabling the care and feeding of pets belonging to underserved families; and responding to our local communities in crisis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Disaster relief grants: disaster relief grants provide financial support to animal welfare organizations whose communities have suffered the impact of natural or other disasters. Grants also support partnering organizations assisting in rescue, relief, and transport efforts.hope funds: hope funds provides financial support for income-qualified pet owners who cannot afford the cost of emergency veterinary care at vca. Vca associates must submit applications on behalf of qualifying pets and their owners. All vca hospitals may participate.continued on schedule o. Fighting hometown hunger: designed to help keep pets in loving homes, this program helps fight hometown hunger by providing healthy, nutritious meals to pets to nonprofit partners with pet food pantries in local communities across the country or for those shelters in need of food for shelter pets. In partnership with hill's pet nutrition and royal canin, nearly 1,000,000 meals were provided to dogs and cats in need.ready for rescue: ready for rescue grants help pets find loving homes. By supporting animal welfare organizations with financial support and the resources to ready pets for adoption, we are helping remove…
$2,666,224 spentof which $2,487,681 as grants$10,887 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,666,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+46%).
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.
99% of VCA CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Kim Van Syoc
Acting executive director
Board chair
Kimberly West
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $0 → $13k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 VCA CHARITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
VCA CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 VCA CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 89% · 2023 79% — 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
50% of VCA CHARITIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
70% of VCA CHARITIES'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
VCA CHARITIES has grown faster than half of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like VCA CHARITIES
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.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VCA CHARITIES: 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 VCA CHARITIES?
- VCA CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,476 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VCA CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $114,476 in grants to VCA CHARITIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VCA CHARITIES?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VCA CHARITIES 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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