California · Nonprofit
WHIS-PURR RESCUE
WHIS-PURR RESCUE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,083 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($305,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $439k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Whis-Purr Rescue does
Mission
To rescue homeless, abandoned or neglected cats and kittens, including those with significant medical needs, feral tendencies, or scheduled for euthanasia by providing food, shelter and medical care within our organization until able to place in a permanent home. We remain an integral part of the new family support system so that we are proactively working with family should behavioral problems arise bringing about the desire to return their adoptee. We are also working with other 501c3 rescues to provide spay and neuter services with our volunteer veterinarians so that the rescues can free up space to rescue other cats as their cats are fixed and then find homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During this fiscal year, Whis-Purr established a cat sanctuary to care for resident rescue cats, both feral and fearful. These cats have been in the rescue for up to 9 years and it had become apparent that they were too fearful to find homes and aging out with medical conditions that made it difficult to adopt. Currently 20 cats reside in the sanctuary.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Our organization is 100% devoted to rescue and placement of cats and kittens, rescued from high-kill shelters and rescued from the communities. This period from 3/1/24 to 2/28/25 we placed cats and kittens into their forever homes. We provide all their food, litter, housing, medical and work with each one to socialize enabling the cat or kitten to find their home. Our expenses are directly related to their care and revenue is their adoption fees and donation. * We have partnered with trappers to do trap/neuter/release services that has been at no expense to us nor has drawn in revenue. * We have been working with the community, educating and helping these families to continued to provide homes for their adoptees, working through issues that may have caused the family to return the cat or kitten. This year we also have helped community and rescue partners pay for medical emergencies.
$86,898 spent$105,429 earned by the program53% of program spending* Due to the dire situation in obtaining spay/neuter appointments in the Bay Area for our rescue cats and kittens, Whis-Purr Rescue raised funds for the 2021 Rescue Coalition Spay/Neuter Van Project! This van will help cat rescue groups all over the Bay Area get prompt spay/neuter appointments at consistent and affordable rescue prices! Access to these services will accelerate adoptions and will maximize the number of cats and kittens we can save from euthanasia at local shelters. * Local humane societies and many spay/neuter clinics closed their doors because of COVID-19 restrictions. This resulted in a kitten population explosion leaving the shelters overcrowded as they continue to receive unprecedented numbers of cats and kittens surrendered upon reopening mid-2021. * Humane societies and vet clinics cannot keep up with this historic demand and the waiting list for spay/neuter appointments stretches for months. The prolonged wait for pre-adoption surgeries causes kittens to grow up at the rescue locations instead of in their forever homes. This lack of space prevents other rescue cats and kittens to be safe from Euthanasia! * This coalition was formed to help. *Whis-Purr…
$67,535 spent$88,961 earned by the program42% of program spendingWhis-Purr Rescue established a 'Cat Sanctuary', a third program based on the number of cats at the rescue who have never been adopted due to late rescue situations. These cats are either feral or fearful. These cats have been at the rescue, in some cases for up to nine years. The Sanctuary cats are worked with to help them to feel more comfortable and engaged at Whis-Purr. We have dedicated volunteers spending time with them and using clicker training technigues, so that they have enrichment in their home with us. As the Sanctuary cats age, they have developed medical needs that we are addressing as well. We provide for each one with loving care.
$8,067 spent$450 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $44k to $236k (+434%).
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.
56% of WHIS-PURR RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $98k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 WHIS-PURR 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
WHIS-PURR RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WHIS-PURR RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 69% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of WHIS-PURR RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of WHIS-PURR 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WHIS-PURR RESCUE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WHIS-PURR 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHIS-PURR RESCUE: 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 WHIS-PURR RESCUE?
- WHIS-PURR RESCUE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,083 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($305,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHIS-PURR RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $439,083 in grants to WHIS-PURR RESCUE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHIS-PURR RESCUE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHIS-PURR RESCUE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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