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Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc

Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,549 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH J TELLIER FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$174k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$21k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc does

Mission

Provide care and find homes for animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Took in 200 rescue dogs and cates and found homes for 198

    $153,601 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $153,601.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($89k) Net assets -115 ($-210)2018 Revenue 120 ($107k) Expenses 121 ($108k) Net assets -547 ($-995)2019 Revenue 134 ($120k) Expenses 133 ($118k) Net assets 100 ($182)2020 Revenue 230 ($206k) Expenses 187 ($166k) Net assets 21626 ($39k)2021 Revenue 144 ($128k) Expenses 161 ($144k) Net assets 13185 ($24k)2022 Revenue 219 ($196k) Expenses 215 ($191k) Net assets 15518 ($28k)2023 Revenue 222 ($198k) Expenses 227 ($202k) Net assets 13132 ($24k)2024 Revenue 195 ($174k) Expenses 199 ($177k) Net assets 11604 ($21k)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (199)Net assets (11604)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2k to $41k (+1669%).

$4k
$4k
$2k
$41k
$25k
$30k
$25k
$22k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$234
’17
−$785
’18
$1k
’19
$39k
’20
−$15k
’21
$4k
’22
−$4k
’23
−$3k
’24
1.3
months of
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.

20202023
Listed44
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $4k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue 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

Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 87% · 2020 92% · 2021 47% · 2022 57% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.

“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

82% of Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

IL
WI
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc has grown faster than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

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 Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue 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 Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc?
Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,549 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH J TELLIER FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,549 in grants to Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc?
ELIZABETH J TELLIER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2024), 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