Starfish Animal Rescue
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 20-8663331. Reported 23 grants totalling $265,965 to 23 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Starfish Animal Rescue, the IRS classifies it under animal welfare rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE D20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 23 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 $5,000 and $19,930; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $29,920. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take Me Home | Santa Monica, CA | $29,920 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Real Bark | Los Angeles, CA | $23,470 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Find My Dog a Home Foundation | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harbin Shs Animal Rescue Corp | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Dawg Squad | Los Angeles, CA | $19,970 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ghetto Rescue Ffoundation | Anaheim, CA | $19,930 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Born Again Pit Bull Rescue | Sherwood, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home Inc | Tucson, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Angels for Animals | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cameron Dog Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heaven on Earth | North Hollywood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midcitycatsla Inc | W Hollywood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stray Paws Animal Haven | S El Monte, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Sato Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stray Gerakas | Los Angeles, CA | $7,075 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tails of the City Animal Rescue | Los Angeles, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bull Terrier Rescue Inc | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Cocker Rescue Inc | Sherman Oaks, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compassion in World Farming | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kauai SPCA | Kilauea, HI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Feliz Animal Rescue | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tail Waggers Inn | Grants Pass, OR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| At-Choo Foundation | Valley Vlg, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 23 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.
Where its money goes
80% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 Starfish Animal Rescue's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2699 12 N Beachwood Drive 4194, Los Angeles, CA, 90068.
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