California · Nonprofit
VEGAN OUTREACH INC
VEGAN OUTREACH INC (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,593,692 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,305,215). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Vegan Outreach Inc does
Mission
Education regarding animal cruelty
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vegan outreach (vo) is an animal protection organization whose mission is to prevent violence towards animals. Vo educates people about how a vegan lifestyle can prevent animal suffering and death, reduce the environmental impact of food, and improve people's health. This is accomplished primarily by signing people up for our 10 weeks to vegan and get healthy challenges, where they receive ten emails with information on how to eat vegan. They also have access to facebook groups and a mentor program for support. For fiscal year 2025, over 155,000 people signed up for these challenges. We also distribute booklets about veganism at colleges and some high schools; vegan outreach staff and volunteers gave booklets to over 182,000 people at 177 schools. Vo has two registered dietitians on staff who answer nutrition questions from the public and maintain a well-respected website, veganhealth.org, which summarizes the research on vegan nutrition. In fy 2025, our food events department conducted vegan chef challenges, month-long events showcasing new vegan menu items at local non-vegan restaurants, in 29 cities.
$1,996,289 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,996,289.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+36%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of VEGAN OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jack Norris
Executive director
Board chair
Patti Rogers-Engelby
Board member-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $166k → $1.6M.
14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 VEGAN OUTREACH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
VEGAN OUTREACH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 VEGAN OUTREACH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 86% · 2021 84% · 2022 32% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of VEGAN OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
55% of VEGAN OUTREACH INC'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 $4.8M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
VEGAN OUTREACH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VEGAN OUTREACH 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VEGAN OUTREACH 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 VEGAN OUTREACH INC?
- VEGAN OUTREACH INC (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,593,692 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,305,215). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VEGAN OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $10,593,692 in grants to VEGAN OUTREACH INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VEGAN OUTREACH INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $4,305,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VEGAN OUTREACH 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.
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 48 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