Oregon · Nonprofit
BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC
BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,113 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,791). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $626k
What Best Friends of Baker Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purposethe primary objectives of this organization are to support and assist animal shelter; to aid in the rescue and rehabilitation of abused, abandoned and lost animals (primarily domestic dogs and cats); to help reduce over population; to provid
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization was able to provide spaying and neutering services to at least 124 animals, 95 cats and 29 dogs. Additionally the organizaton supports animals impounded with basic as well as emergent medical and safety needs. The organization has also developed additional foster families to support animals in transition as they await rehoming. In 2025, 49 dogs were placed through fosters to adoptions.
$124,275 spent$147,756 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $124,275.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $262k to $603k (+130%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 5 funders, grant income rose $750 → $8k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER 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
BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 56% · 2022 76% · 2023 65% — 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
66% of BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER 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 $20k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC: 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 BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC?
- BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,113 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,791). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $60,113 in grants to BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEST FRIENDS OF BAKER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 7 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