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Tails of Joy

TAILS OF JOY rescues animals all across the country and beyond. Toj financially supports the smallest, neediest rescue groups across the us as well as canada and mexico, as well as funding food, medical and upkeep of the pets of the needy and housing insecure. TAILS OF JOY rescues every type of animal.

$142k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$128k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$95,542
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$890k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Tails of Joy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$128k80%
FY20236$131k83%
FY20224$108kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Animals$367k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue Inc$10,00017%
Linda Blair World Heart Foundation$10,00012%
Pawsitive Paws of Texas$9,0001n/a
Crossing Guardians$9,000114%
Badass Animal Rescue Inc$8,00011%
Tricounty Pitbull Rescue Inc$7,7501n/a
Peace4Paws Inc$7,50013%
Laylas Heart Ranch and Rescue$7,50014%
Rescue Dogs Rescue Soldiers Corp$7,50015%
Baja Animal Sanctuary$7,40012%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tails of Joy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNortheast Boston Terrier Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLinda Blair World Heart Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCrossing Guardians: $9,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBadass Animal Rescue Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPeace4Paws Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLaylas Heart Ranch and Rescue: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRescue Dogs Rescue Soldiers Corp: $7,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBaja Animal Sanctuary: $7,400 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodDC10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Tails of Joy?

Find your warmest path to Tails of Joy 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.

About Tails of Joy

How much does Tails of Joy give?
Tails of Joy reported 5 itemized grants totaling $128,442, out of $142,201 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Tails of Joy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Tails of Joy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue Inc ($10k), Linda Blair World Heart Foundation ($10k), Pawsitive Paws of Texas ($9k).
Does Tails of Joy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tails of Joy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Tails of Joy based?
Tails of Joy is based in CA.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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