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BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE

BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE (New Jersey) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,601 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($320,084). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$229k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$426k
Net assets
$146k
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Big East Akita Rescue does

Mission

1) To rescue Akita dog and Akita dog mixes from animal shelters; 2) to provide safe shelter, including boarding kennels and foster homes; 3) to provide veterinary care; 4) to find permanent adoptive homes; 5) to promote spaying/neutering.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rescued more than 50 dogs from shelters, cared for them until they could be placed for adoption, and ultimately placed them in permanent homes.

    $172,187 spent$229,948 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $172,187.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($256k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2019 Revenue 84 ($214k) Expenses 119 ($270k) Net assets 53 ($62k)2020 Revenue 73 ($188k) Expenses 65 ($147k) Net assets 88 ($103k)2021 Revenue 85 ($218k) Expenses 88 ($200k) Net assets 103 ($121k)2022 Revenue 74 ($189k) Expenses 92 ($209k) Net assets 85 ($101k)2023 Revenue 90 ($230k) Expenses 85 ($194k) Net assets 116 ($137k)2024 Revenue 90 ($229k) Expenses 97 ($220k) Net assets 124 ($146k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (97)Net assets (124)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 2018 to 2019, from $118k to $62k (−47%).

$118k
$62k
$103k
$121k
$101k
$137k
$146k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’18
−$56k
’19
$41k
’20
$18k
’21
−$21k
’22
$37k
’23
$9k
’24
4.9
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed3333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $78k.

4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE’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

BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

88% 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 BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE.

75%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 68% · 2019 90% · 2020 85% · 2021 76% · 2022 87% · 2023 75% — 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

50% of BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

87% of BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 9 states.

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DE
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $426k to it.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

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.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE?
BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE (New Jersey) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,601 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($320,084). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $425,601 in grants to BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $320,084 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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