Michigan · Nonprofit
BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER
BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,230 to it, the largest being BELLWETHER FOUNDATION ($246,161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $178k
What Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter does
Mission
Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter's general purpose is to receive and administer funds exlusively for charitable and educational purposes as permitted for organizations defined in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. Subject to and in furtherance of these purposes, the corporation exists to shelter abandoned, abused, and neglected dogs and cats, rehabilitating them medically and behaviorally, and preparing them for adoption; to educate potential adopters to prepare them for responsible pet ownership; to provide dog training classes to the general public; to provide a location for law enforcement to temporarily house stray dogs when county animal control is unable to respond; to provide a location for regional animal control centers to house shelter dogs for the alleviation of overcrowding; to educate children how to behave safely around dogs they are unfamiliar with; to provide other related services to reduce the burden of state and local government units with respect to she
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our total intake for 2025 was 82 dogs and 83 cats. Our shelter adoptions and other live releases for 2025 were 83 dogs and 80 cats.
$300,501 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $123k to $211k (+71%).
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 BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER’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. 0 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER’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
BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER.
“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
71% of BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER
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.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER: 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 BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER?
- BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,230 to it, the largest being BELLWETHER FOUNDATION ($246,161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $530,230 in grants to BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER?
- BELLWETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $246,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLWETHER HARBOR ANIMAL SHELTER 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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