Michigan · Nonprofit
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,149 to it, the largest being STURGIS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Animal Rescue Fund does
Mission
The Animal Rescue Fund shall be an independent, non-profit fund-raising organization in St. Joseph County, Michigan, consisting of volunteers who are dedicated to helping finance the rescue, treatment and placement of animals who are in need of immediate aid or protection, and to promoting the education of the owners of such animals as to their proper and responsible care. This effort includes spay & neuter of pets, providing pet food for those needing assistance and emergency veterinary care for injured animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided pet food to those in need. 1,200 pet owners estimated; approximately 100 Pet owners per month for 12 months.
$1,030 spent1% of program spendingProvided emergency veterinary care for 57 dogs and cats.
$11,229 spent12% of program spendingProvided spay or neuter to 163 dogs & 814 cats
$81,500 spent87% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,759.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $106k to $177k (+68%).
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.
90% of ANIMAL RESCUE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Helen Luegge
Spay Neuter Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 RESCUE FUND’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
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 RESCUE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 98% — 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
78% of ANIMAL RESCUE FUND'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 RESCUE FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL RESCUE FUND
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 RESCUE FUND: 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 RESCUE FUND?
- ANIMAL RESCUE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,149 to it, the largest being STURGIS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL RESCUE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $8,149 in grants to ANIMAL RESCUE FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL RESCUE FUND?
- STURGIS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL RESCUE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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