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BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC

BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,888 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($110,397). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$108k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$193k
Net assets
$228k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Black Sheep Sanctuary and Retreat Inc does

Mission

Black sheep is a farmed animal sanctuary located in mexico. We aim to give a much needed home to an array of species rescued from slaughter or abusive and exploitative situations. Our primary mission is to provide care and sheler for these rescued animals. We also aim to educate the public with animal care classes while connecting with the animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide care and sheler for the rescued animals. We also aim to educate the public with animal care classes while connecting with the animals.

    $76,316 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $76,316.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2022 Revenue 221 ($220k) Expenses 184 ($108k) Net assets 375 ($152k)2023 Revenue 109 ($109k) Expenses 109 ($64k) Net assets 485 ($196k)2024 Revenue 131 ($130k) Expenses 179 ($105k) Net assets 545 ($221k)2025 Revenue 108 ($108k) Expenses 171 ($101k) Net assets 563 ($228k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (108)Expenses (171)Net assets (563)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 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $152k (+275%).

$40k
$152k
$259k
$282k
$287k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’21
$111k
’22
$44k
’23
$25k
’24
$7k
’25
1.5
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed33333
Joined·+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $120k → $36k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT 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

BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC.

57%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 92% · 2023 69% — 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

97% of BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.

MI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 22%Fundraising 2%

Governance

3
board members
100%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC?
BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,888 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($110,397). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $192,888 in grants to BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK SHEEP SANCTUARY AND RETREAT INC find more funders?
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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