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San Jose animal organizations

There are 188 animal-focused nonprofit organizations in the greater San Jose metro area, including the cities of San Jose, Cupertino, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale. Combined, these San Jose metro animal organizations employ 388 people, earn more than $49 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $91 million.
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Types of animal organizations in San Jose

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Animal shelters and animal welfare organizations
 
120
 
$33,502,378
Wildlife conservation and protection organizations
 
32
 
$12,121,691
Animal services organizations
 
16
 
$1,355,975
Endangered species protection organizations
 
9
 
$8,038,035
Wildlife sanctuaries and refuges
 
8
 
$1,169,399
Animal professional societies
 
5
 
$759,103
Organizations supporting multiple animal nonprofits
 
5
 
$0
Animal alliances and advocates
 
3
 
$0
Zoos and acquariums
 
1
 
$1,431,641
Animal research and public policy institutes
 
1
 
$0
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Job trends for San Jose animal organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
23
1-10
 
12
11-25
 
0
26-100
 
3
101 to 1,000
 
1
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of animal organizations in San Jose

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
48
$250k to $1M
 
18
$1M to $5M
 
7
$5M to $25M
 
1
$25M to $100M
 
0
$100M+
 
0
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Directory of animal organizations in San Jose

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Humane Society Silicon Valley

Humane Society Silicon Valley is a California nonprofit that has operated continuously since 1929, focused on companion animal rescue and homelessness prevention.
Revenue
$20.9m
Assets
$56.1m
Employees
198
EIN
94-1196215
IRS type
501(c)(3)

OneReef Worldwide Stewardship

OneReef conserves coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific with local communities, using scalable partnerships and innovative solutions.
Revenue
$2.3m
Assets
$2.0m
Employees
8
EIN
46-4293324
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)

SFBBO conserves birds and habitats through science-based monitoring, restoration, and outreach. Key programs target snowy plover & least tern recovery and habitat restoration.
Revenue
$2.1m
Assets
$1.1m
Employees
30
EIN
94-2788588
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Happy Hollow Foundation

Happy Hollow Foundation raises funds to support Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, offering hands-on science education for schools and promoting sustainability.
Revenue
$1.4m
Assets
$1.9m
Employees
8
EIN
23-7219471
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Mini Cat Town

Mini Cat Town rescues neonatal kittens, providing shelter, care, and veterinary treatment until adoption while relying on volunteers and fosters for support.
Revenue
$1.9m
Assets
$1.7m
Employees
27
EIN
83-1823628
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Dancing Cat

Karma Cat Rescue rescues and fosters cats, finds them homes, and supports the management of feral cat colonies in Mountain View.
Revenue
$958.1k
Assets
$453.2k
Employees
6
EIN
47-3356799
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Operation Freedom Paws

Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities by providing service dogs and training at no cost.
Revenue
$1.8m
Assets
$1.3m
Employees
66
EIN
45-2566382
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation

The mission of The Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation is to ensure the survival of the most threatened small wild cats and their natural habitats worldwide by identifying and mitigating threats to their continued existence.
Revenue
$4.9m
Assets
$6.3m
Employees
0
EIN
26-1368021
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Cat Welfare Advocates

Cat advocacy: We have fosters, pull form shelters, intake from community members. All cats are fully vetted. Full-time adoption center. Average 80-100 adoptions per year. Cat rescue.
Revenue
$1.7m
Assets
$1.7m
Employees
0
EIN
32-0536161
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Red Roan Nursery

Red Roan Nursery is an organizations supporting multiple animal nonprofit in Sunnyvale, CA that was founded in 2019.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
83-2106989
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Institute for the Desert Arabian Horse

The Institute for the Desert Arabian Horse is an animal research or public policy institute in Los Altos, CA that was founded in 2004.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
20-1127613
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Paws in Action

Paws in Action is an organizations supporting multiple animal nonprofit in Milpitas, CA that was founded in 2026.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
41-4934360
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Benito Bullies

San Benito Bullies is an animal shelter or animal welfare organization in Hollister, CA that was founded in 2020.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
84-4805552
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Thulani Senior German Shepherd Rescue

Rescues terminally ill German Shepherds to provide medical and living support for a quality existence in a permanent home.
Revenue
$351.4k
Assets
$694.6k
Employees
0
EIN
82-1741388
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pink Paws for the Cause

Pink Paws rescues, spays/neuters, and provides medical care for cats. They also care for feral cat colonies in the Bay Area.
Revenue
$199.0k
Assets
$10.5k
Employees
N/A
EIN
45-4571854
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bee Initiative

Bee Initiative is a youth-focused bee education group that teaches beekeeping, supports honeybee research, and inspires conservation through school lessons and contests.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
85-1379273
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Peninsula Catworks

Peninsula Catworks mobilizes volunteers to humanely trap, neuter, vaccinate, and treat stray and feral cats, returning them to their colonies.
Revenue
$82.6k
Assets
$35.4k
Employees
N/A
EIN
20-2655166
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Itty Bitty Orphan Kitty Rescue

Itty Bitty Orphan Kitty Rescue saves pre-weaned orphan kittens from shelters and colonies, bottle-feeds and fosters them, provides medical care, and places them in screened homes.
Revenue
$249.0k
Assets
$76.8k
Employees
0
EIN
20-8315645
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Kitty Citty

Kitty Citty is an animal shelter or animal welfare organization in Gilroy, CA that was founded in 2025.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
39-4756691
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Jake's Wish Dog Rescue

Jake's Wish Dog Rescue rescues and rehomes owner surrendered and unadoptable shelter dogs through their programs.
Revenue
$86.1k
Assets
$459.9k
Employees
0
EIN
46-5281347
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "D00: Animal Related: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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