Iowa · Nonprofit
BAILING OUT BENJI
BAILING OUT BENJI (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,682 to it, the largest being THREE LABS FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $483k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $506k
What Bailing Out Benji does
Mission
We do research, education, and advocacy regarding puppy mills, along with support to pet owners facing financial hardships to enable them to keep their pets in the family, reducing strains on local shelters
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bailing Out Benji disseminates information about the dog breeding and selling industry to the general public through multiple media channels, including its website, social media platforms, and podcast, and through in-person, volunteer-led public events. The organization produces and distributes content designed to help individuals make informed decisions when acquiring a pet, developing policies and regulations, or advocating for changes in the industry. Public outreach efforts also include the development and maintenance of a publicly accessible licensed breeder search engine, enabling consumers and advocates to research licensed breeders at the state and federal level. Bailing Out Benji's outreach materials are used by advocates, policymakers, and puppy buyers nationwide.
$110,553 spent40% of program spendingBailing Out Benji's unique research program collects, catalogs, and conducts forensic analysis on extensive data from government inspection reports, health records, lawsuits, and more, to spark change within the puppy mill, commercial dog breeding, and pet acquisition industries. Our research is used to flag habitual violators, expose sham rescue operations, and produce national datasets on licensed breeder violations, broker supply chains, and retail compliance. Research findings are made available to the public, and are actively used by legislators, regulators, law enforcement, and animal advocates to inform policy development and regulatory reform efforts.
$104,071 spent37% of program spendingAt Bailing Out Benji, we believe you can't help animals without first helping the people who love those animals. Our Benji Cares program has been able to make an immeasurable impact on thousands of families who were experiencing financial hardship and needed a partner to help them get through. Our pet food pantry and pet wellness clinics provide essential support to pet owners in times of need, removing barriers that often lead families to surrender their pets to shelters. This allows pets to stay in homes and reduces strain on local shelters. In 2025, we served an average of 88 families each month at our pet food pantry and provided 361 vaccines and microchips to 165 pets free of charge at our annual Pet Wellness Clinic.
$63,265 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $375k to $555k (+48%).
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.
96% of BAILING OUT BENJI’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. 3 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $31k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BAILING OUT BENJI’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
BAILING OUT BENJI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 BAILING OUT BENJI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 76% · 2021 79% · 2022 70% · 2023 96% — 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
17% of BAILING OUT BENJI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
81% of BAILING OUT BENJI's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
BAILING OUT BENJI has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAILING OUT BENJI
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAILING OUT BENJI: 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 BAILING OUT BENJI?
- BAILING OUT BENJI (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,682 to it, the largest being THREE LABS FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAILING OUT BENJI have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $119,682 in grants to BAILING OUT BENJI, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAILING OUT BENJI?
- THREE LABS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAILING OUT BENJI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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