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BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC

BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,053 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$243k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$583k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Buchanan County Animal Shelter Inc does

Mission

No kill animal shelter

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide a safe and secure environment for animals in need, to analyze their health and enhance behavior, to see ultimate placement in a good home.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($479k)2018 Revenue 103 ($86k) Expenses 362 ($73k) Net assets 103 ($492k)2019 Revenue 99 ($82k) Expenses 372 ($76k) Net assets 104 ($499k)2020 Revenue 141 ($117k) Expenses 498 ($101k) Net assets 107 ($513k)2021 Revenue 110 ($92k) Expenses 530 ($108k) Net assets 104 ($498k)2022 Revenue 119 ($99k) Expenses 542 ($110k) Net assets 101 ($485k)2023 Revenue 132 ($110k) Expenses 555 ($113k) Net assets 101 ($482k)2024 Revenue 89 ($74k) Expenses 511 ($104k) Net assets 97 ($465k)2025 Revenue 292 ($243k) Expenses 619 ($126k) Net assets 122 ($583k)
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Revenue (292)Expenses (619)Net assets (122)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 2024 to 2025, from $469k to $587k (+25%).

$479k
$492k
$499k
$516k
$500k
$487k
$485k
$469k
$587k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2022 11% · 2023 20% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$13k
’18
$7k
’19
$16k
’20
−$16k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$30k
’24
$117k
’25
16
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed443336
Joined·+0+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·01000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $21k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER 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

BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 60% · 2022 73% · 2023 50% — 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

99% of BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA
MO
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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

BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 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

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC?
BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,053 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $52,053 in grants to BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC?
MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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