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BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC

BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,821 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($136,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$317k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$191k
Net assets
$105k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Broken Tail Rescue Inc does

Mission

We take in homeless dogs, cats and rabbits into foster care and prepare them for new adoptive homes after providing needed training, medical care and spaying/neutering. We adopt dogs from volunteer foster homes and cats from volunteer foster homes and also our adoption centers at two PetSmart stores.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our only program service area is taking ownership of homeless dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs and providing appropriate veterinary care for them before placing them up for adoption. We adopted out over 70 dogs and 300 cats during 2023.

    $254,685 spent$317,113 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,685.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2020 Revenue 102 ($100k) Expenses 90 ($81k) Net assets 287 ($30k)2021 Revenue 140 ($137k) Expenses 166 ($150k) Net assets 160 ($17k)2022 Revenue 158 ($155k) Expenses 164 ($149k) Net assets 219 ($23k)2023 Revenue 245 ($241k) Expenses 244 ($220k) Net assets 414 ($43k)2024 Revenue 323 ($317k) Expenses 282 ($255k) Net assets 1017 ($105k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (323)Expenses (282)Net assets (1017)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 2023 to 2024, from $43k to $105k (+146%).

$10k
$30k
$17k
$23k
$43k
$105k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BROKEN TAIL 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. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’19
$19k
’20
−$13k
’21
$6k
’22
$20k
’23
$62k
’24
5.0
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.

20232024
Listed11
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $11k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BROKEN TAIL 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

BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

96% 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 BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC.

71%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 87% · 2022 49% · 2023 58% — 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 BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
AZ

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

’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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

BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve5.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

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

Organizations like BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC

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.

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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

1
board members
0%
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

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC?
BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,821 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($136,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $190,821 in grants to BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $136,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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