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A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC

A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,538 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($43,432). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$534k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$147k
Net assets
$483k
5/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What A Way Home for Dogs Inc does

Mission

To reunite lost pets with their owners and rescue street stray dogs to rehab and rehome.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To reunite lost pets with their owners and rescue street stray dogs through rehabilitation with the ultimate purpose of finding them a new home.

    $277,486 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,486.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($272k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($139k)2023 Revenue 85 ($230k) Expenses 117 ($168k) Net assets 145 ($201k)2024 Revenue 83 ($225k) Expenses 134 ($194k) Net assets 167 ($232k)2025 Revenue 196 ($534k) Expenses 196 ($283k) Net assets 348 ($483k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (196)Expenses (196)Net assets (348)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $232k to $483k (+108%).

$139k
$201k
$232k
$483k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$128k
’22
$62k
’23
$31k
’24
$251k
’25
8.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2022202320242025
Listed3334
Joined·+0+0+1
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $22k → $52k.

8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC.

30%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 76% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

83% of A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

NY
OR
OH
CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC?
A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,538 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($43,432). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $146,538 in grants to A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing