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VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS

VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,732 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($23,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$20k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$743k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Veterinarians Without Borders does

Mission

The organization advances human health and livelihoods in underserved areas by sustainably improving animal health and husbandry through education, veterinary service, enterprise development and advanced trade.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization advances human health and livelihoods in underserved areas by sustainably improving animal health and husbandry through education, veterinary service, enterprise development and advanced trade.

    $101,094 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,094.

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 ($20k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 1867 ($371k) Expenses 747 ($391k) Net assets -149 ($-11568)2019 Revenue 1011 ($201k) Expenses 623 ($325k) Net assets -1752 ($-136052)2020 Revenue 2890 ($575k) Expenses 291 ($152k) Net assets 3687 ($286k)2021 Revenue 2569 ($511k) Expenses 354 ($185k) Net assets 7881 ($612k)2022 Revenue 2306 ($458k) Expenses 471 ($246k) Net assets 10611 ($824k)2023 Revenue 479 ($95k) Expenses 258 ($135k) Net assets 10616 ($825k)2024 Revenue 52 ($10k) Expenses 232 ($121k) Net assets 9727 ($756k)2025 Revenue 101 ($20k) Expenses 182 ($95k) Net assets 9564 ($743k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (182)Net assets (9564)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 2019 to 2020, from $36k to $449k (+1135%).

$13k
$56k
$36k
$449k
$631k
$828k
$825k
$756k
$743k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 2020 16% · 2021 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
−$19k
’18
−$124k
’19
$422k
’20
$326k
’21
$212k
’22
−$40k
’23
−$111k
’24
−$75k
’25
43
months of
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.

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Listed55556655
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $12k → $709.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS’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

VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS.

50%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 78% · 2023 71% — 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

72% of VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

RI
CA
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−373% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve43.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS?
VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,732 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($23,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,732 in grants to VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS 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