Michigan · Nonprofit
BISSELL Pet Foundation
BISSELL Pet Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,164,897 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($898,180). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What BISSELL Pet Foundation does
Programs
Empty the Shelters BPF facilitates pet adoptions by organizing and funding Empty the Shelters through national and regional events. Empty the Shelters gives adopters the ability to take home a spayed or neutered, fully vaccinated, and microchipped pet for a reduced fee at hundreds of shelters throughout the country. More than 97,740 dogs and cats were adopted through these events in 2024.
$3,511,412 spentDonor Designated BPF supports specific projects and initiatives outside of regular programming to amplify our ability to save lives.
$535,847 spentFix the Future BPF addresses the lack of access to spay/neuter for both shelters and pet owners through Fix the Future. BPF pays contracted veterinarians directly and connects them with approved Host Organizations (animal shelters, designated spay/neuter facilities, etc.) in regions where spay/neuter is needed.This program not only prepares shelter pets for adoption but also provides crucial services to community-owned pets through clinics. In 2024, more than 98,650 pets were "fixed" through this program.
$3,288,521 spentCrisis & Disaster - BPF's Animal Incident Management (AIM) team responds when pets' lives are at stake through pre-event planning, post-event recovery, animal search and rescue, shelter support, transport and mass care/humanitarian efforts. In 2024, AIM responded to 45 crises and natural disasters, saving countless pets who would not have had a chance without us.
$560,876 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.6M to $2.8M (−38%).
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 4 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $53k → $621k.
15 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 BISSELL Pet Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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
BISSELL Pet Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 BISSELL Pet Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 99% · 2019 70% · 2020 72% · 2021 48% · 2022 25% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of BISSELL Pet Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
BISSELL Pet Foundation draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BISSELL Pet Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BISSELL Pet Foundation
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BISSELL Pet Foundation: 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 BISSELL Pet Foundation?
- BISSELL Pet Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,164,897 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($898,180). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BISSELL Pet Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $3,164,897 in grants to BISSELL Pet Foundation, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BISSELL Pet Foundation?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $898,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BISSELL Pet Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 69 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing