Texas · Nonprofit
ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION
ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,919 to it, the largest being WILLIAM A SOLOMENE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($207,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $950k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Animal Refuge Foundation does
Mission
Rescue & rehabilitation of abandoned and abused animals; primarily dogs. Placing dogs for adoption after they are fully vetted & prepared for homes; including vaccines, spay/neuter, heartworm negative & microchip Puppy rescue, prep and transport to puppy partner in Colorado.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Employee care for on-site dogs for the year feeding, watering and cleaning up after animals Veterinary care for animals, including spay/neuter. Wages for employees to care for animals 325 dogs -$ 215,000 Supplies (including medical supplies) $19,547 Vet care $64,040 Feed - $24,956
$324,274 spent80% of program spendingUtilities office expenses for buildings to house animals & office building Equipment maintenance, property maintenance, land maintenance
$42,256 spent10% of program spendingFuel costs to travel to Colorado Puppy Rescue. Lodging in Colorado Pick up donated product & feed Salary for person to care for puppies & transport to puppy rescue in Colorado
$37,520 spent9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $404,050.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.2M (+7%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $24k → $229k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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
ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
67% 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 ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
86% of ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION'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 $310k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $950k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION
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.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION?
- ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,919 to it, the largest being WILLIAM A SOLOMENE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($207,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $949,919 in grants to ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION?
- WILLIAM A SOLOMENE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $207,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing