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Pet Care Foundation

Northridge, CA · EIN 56-2322380. Reported 22 grants totalling $320,000 to 22 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$320,000granted, 2024
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Pet Care Foundation, the IRS classifies it under animal welfare rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE D20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,000 and $23,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Kitten RescueLos Angeles, CA$35,000112024
FixnationSun Valley, CA$30,000112024
Lange FoundationLos Angeles, CA$25,000112024
Shelter Hope Enterprises IncLos Angeles, CA$25,000112024
Stray Cat AllianceLos Angeles, CA$25,000112024
Bettertogether ForeverGlendale, CA$23,000112024
Heaven on Earth Society for Animals IncN Hollywood, CA$15,000112024
Westside German Shephard RescueLos Angeles, CA$14,000112024
Community Animal Medicine ProjectSan Pedro, CA$12,500112024
Animals in Need Rescue Network IncLos Angeles, CA$10,000112024
Kitty BungalowLos Angeles, CA$10,000112024
Los Angeles Animal ServicesLos Angeles, CA$10,000112024
Pasadena Humane SocietyPasadena, CA$10,000112024
The Amanda FoundationBeverly Hills, CA$10,000112024
Wags and WalksLos Angeles, CA$10,000112024
Daisy Senior Dog FoundationLos Angeles, CA$9,500112024
Saint Martins Animal FoundationPrescott, AZ$9,000112024
Downtown Dog RescuePasadena, CA$7,500112024
Grand-Paws Senior SanctuaryActon, CA$7,500112024
Kitt Crusaders IncLos Angeles, CA$7,500112024
Rescue Rock IncLos Angeles, CA$7,500112024
The Rescue TrainNorth Hollywood, CA$7,000112024

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Animal Welfare
14 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Education
1 org

Where its money goes

97% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$311K
Arizona
$9K

Down to the city

Los Angeles, CA
$188K
Sun Valley, CA
$30K
Glendale, CA
$23K
Pasadena, CA
$18K
N Hollywood, CA
$15K
San Pedro, CA
$12K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund12 shared recipientsBest Friends Animal Society11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsCalifornia Community Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Pet Care Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 9018 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA, 91325.

EIN 56-2322380 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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