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Special Needs Dobermans Inc

SND is an all-volunteer organization with a goal of providing direct or indirect financial assistance to cover extraordinary medical and maintenance expenses of senior or special needs Dobermans in rescue

$253k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Animals$544kCrime & Legal$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $112,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $252,651 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $140,651 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
$13,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH DESERT DOBERMAN RESCUE$28,800
DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE$26,400
SECOND CHANCE DOBES$13,600
Individual grant recipient$13,500
BLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE$11,200
DOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADA$10,700
J9S RESCUE INC$7,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Doberman Pinscher Rescue: $33k → 10%Dog Mountain Rescue: $29k → 18%San Antonio Doberman Advoca: $11k → 12%High Desert Doberman Rescue: $35k → 19%Second Chance Dobes: $25k → 12%J9s Rescue Inc: $13k → 21%Doberman Rescue of Nevada: $16k → 13%Bluegrass Doberman Rescue: $23k → 15%Doberman Pinscher Rescue: $30k → 10%Dog Mountain Rescue: $27k → 18%San Antonio Doberman Advoca: $11k → 12%High Desert Doberman Rescue: $31k → 19%Second Chance Dobes: $23k → 12%J9S RESCUE INC: $8k → 21%DOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADA: $11k → 13%Bluegrass Doberman Rescue: $21k → 15%DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE: $26k → 10%Dog Mountain Rescue: $23k → 18%San Antonio Doberman Advoca: $7k → 12%HIGH DESERT DOBERMAN RESCUE: $29k → 19%Second Chance Dobes: $20k → 12%J9s Rescue Inc: $7k → 21%Doberman Rescue of Nevada: $10k → 13%Bluegrass Doberman Rescue: $13k → 15%Doberman Pinscher Rescue: $21k → 10%DOG MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $14k → 18%High Desert Doberman Rescue: $22k → 19%SECOND CHANCE DOBES: $14k → 12%Doberman Rescue of Nevada: $8k → 13%BLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE: $11k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$571k · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
0

Total granted

$571k
$0

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HD
    HIGH DESERT DOBERMAN RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $117k
  • DP
    DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +40%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $93k

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    2/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    HIGH DESERT DOBERMAN RESCUE: $117,310 · OtherHIGH DESERT DOBERMAN RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $92,703 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSecond Chance Dobes: $81,425 · OtherSecond Chance DobesJ9s Rescue Inc: $27,200 · OtherJ9s Rescue IncDOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE: $110,458 · AnimalsDOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUEBLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE INC: $68,760 · AnimalsBLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE INCDOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADA: $44,750 · AnimalsDOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADASAN ANTONIO DOBERMAN ADVOCACY AND RESCUE: $28,753 · Youth Development
    Other$318,638Animals$223,968Youth Development$28,753

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE: $110,458 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetBLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE INC: $68,760 over 4y, 18% of budgetDOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADA: $44,750 over 4y, 24% of budgetSAN ANTONIO DOBERMAN ADVOCACY AND RESCUE: $28,753 over 3y, 20% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE ↗
    • Who funds BLUEGRASS DOBERMAN RESCUE INC ↗
    • Who funds DOBERMAN RESCUE OF NEVADA ↗
    • Who funds SAN ANTONIO DOBERMAN ADVOCACY AND RESCUE ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Special Needs Dobermans Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Special Needs Dobermans Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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      Find your warmest path to Special Needs Dobermans Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $195k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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